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Dying is the work

Posted on April 16, 2020 by dgermann

Death is the mystery Dying is the work For those coming after :- Doug.

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Value of our ending?

Posted on April 16, 2020 by dgermann

What is the possible value of our ending? To our culture? To those who must not yet end? :- Doug.

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Dying say yes

Posted on April 16, 2020 by dgermann

Let me in my dying say yes to how living and dying is, without arguing with it, without agreeing with it. Meet, converse, wrestle: turn. :- Doug.

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Right or skill?

Posted on April 15, 2020 by dgermann

Humanity—more right or skill? More received or developed? :- Doug.

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Do not fight my death

Posted on April 15, 2020 by dgermann

I do not want to fight my death nor give in to it to wrestle with it, turn, be turned :- Doug.

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Wrestle things that are

Posted on April 15, 2020 by dgermann

Our task is to make our meaning so that the grandchildren will see a way to make theirs. It is made when you wrestle the things that are. :- Doug.

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Allow Meet Welcome

Posted on April 15, 2020 by dgermann

Allow what life might come to you of the life now meeting yours Meet what clues of this life are opened for you Welcome the dying this opening invites you to :- Doug.

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What echoes?

Posted on April 15, 2020 by dgermann

Can we tell a story worth hearing? What echoes from it? :- Doug.

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With witnesses things last

Posted on April 14, 2020 by dgermann

With witnesses things last. :- Doug.

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Cannot know what they are teaching

Posted on April 14, 2020 by dgermann

Elders cannot know what they are teaching. If they know, they are not elders. :- Doug.

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Won’t get old as fast

Posted on April 14, 2020 by dgermann

At least we have an extra day this year. We won’t get old as fast! :- Doug.

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Never a poet harm

Posted on April 13, 2020 by dgermann

Never a poet harm Never a poet love Never a poet be Never Aiee! It’s too late! :- Doug.

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wrinkles and wonder

Posted on April 13, 2020 by dgermann

The call of the elder may just be to live life as it comes to us, thinking in our every day of the later and earlier ones and our responsibility to them, knowing our own failures and successes are all … Continue reading →

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Not as some doctors

Posted on April 13, 2020 by dgermann

Not as some doctors seem to see people as mechanical or chemical machines to be sliced and pilled into shape, elder caring attorneys get to see people as people, to meet them as they live their lives. :- Doug.

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Write only for your eyes

Posted on April 11, 2020 by dgermann

Ask your children what lessons they learned of you, if it must be in a story you write only for your eyes. :- Doug.

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What did my parents teach me?

Posted on April 11, 2020 by dgermann

What do I have to teach? With what reach out 300 years? I may never be given to know. My children have said I taught them some things, and in hearing it from them I do not recognize it as … Continue reading →

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Nor even questions

Posted on April 11, 2020 by dgermann

It’s not about having the answers, nor perhaps even the questions. :- Doug.

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