Author Archives: dgermann
Testing our muddle
We are looking for something in our stories. Admit it. We are exploring. So explore. Create another story and another. Somehow we are testing our muddle. How we get from beginning to end. What at least a part of “it … Continue reading
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Story to its root
Hear beyond listening the stories we are telling about generations of generations: follow each story to its root: what does it tell of us? Of what we believe, unknowing? :- Doug.
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crossed by grandparent
The path a threshold is crossed by grandparent today’s tomorrow’s :- Doug.
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Lead from your truing
People already look up to you. Fear not to lead from your truing. :- Doug.
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Poet disappear
Poet disappear you, like they are evaporating :- Doug.
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Price for this message
Although I must pay the price for this message I do not know what is the message :- Doug.
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Compost nurtures
Compost nurtures heaped here our failures rinds of successes husks of many ho-hum days working, worked, heating, breaking down this is how life nourishes :- Doug.
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Move past your story
The task O storyteller move past your story :- Doug.
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Traces in the air
Thoughts come and go their wings leaving traces traces in the air :- Doug.
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Even ancestors endure
Somehow there is income on the in breath. Oxygen? Somehow there is expenditure on the out breath. CO2? It all balances somehow. And yet we get what we need to continue. We exchange with the plants and one another. We … Continue reading
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Let go now?
What is really important for you to do right now? What is really important for you to do in 300 years? What is really important for you to let go now? In 300 years? :- Doug.
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The elder sees
The elder sees Who the grandchild is They meet :- Doug.
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Silent in the face?
Here’s the fact: we are falling apart, we are evaporating. How do we use this fact to teach? Not to teach, to lead? Not to lead, to inspire? Not to inspire, to befriend? Not to befriend, to walk alongside? Not … Continue reading
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Beneficial disintegration
The issue is, how can we to benefit humanicity make use of the fact we are disintegrating? :- Doug.
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Cannot know the path
Cannot know the path only this end of the trajectory :- Doug.
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