Work with your story: What surprise might it give next? Ask it what is its work? Ask your 300 year grandchild elder what its work is. Wrestle, contend with its effects on your hearers and you. :- Doug.

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Wish for GC3?

Posted on April 27, 2020 by dgermann

What do you wish for your grandchildren’s grandchildren’s grandchildren? This we work on. :- Doug.

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Tale of two lives

Posted on April 27, 2020 by dgermann

At 17 or so, how did you imagine your life would be? Write the story of that imagined life by stages or ages or themes. 10 minutes. Now write the parallel story of how it worked out. What do the … Continue reading →

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A time when you loved me

Posted on April 27, 2020 by dgermann

There was a time when you loved me that time I think is a long now includes it does this now just this week you were on a trip you called me every day we didn’t know what to say … Continue reading →

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In covid time

Posted on April 26, 2020 by dgermann

We have in covid time a season for our minds to lie fallow. :- Doug.

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300-year quest

Posted on April 26, 2020 by dgermann

Storytelling is a 300-year quest for the spirit of humanity. :- Doug.

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Message enough

Posted on April 26, 2020 by dgermann

I know what I’m doing. I know my direction. I don’t know where I will end, nor what value it will be. I go. We meet. Message enough. :- Doug.

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You are deep in a forest

Posted on April 26, 2020 by dgermann

You are deep in a forest. You can walk to the right or left of each tree you meet. How many paths? :- Doug.

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Our story that is not our story

Posted on April 26, 2020 by dgermann

Our great quest is to find our story that is not our story. :- Doug.

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Progress through dying

Posted on April 26, 2020 by dgermann

We start from meeting. We progress through dying. Dying as story, dying as message, dying as bettering humanicity. We meet again. We ask the next question. We ask How? We name the person. We ask for our own message. We … Continue reading →

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Blazing the wrong trail

Posted on April 25, 2020 by dgermann

Progress this morning. A few strong fresh insights. It all is telling me that there is a message here that is important. It is telling me I do not need to know what that message is, only search. Go one … Continue reading →

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Its thread starts here

Posted on April 25, 2020 by dgermann

Beyond whether the message ever gets through, there is a study for us to conduct, a message for us to find for us. There is deeper, further. Its thread starts here. Should we find the message, find our coeur, this … Continue reading →

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