Author Archives: dgermann
It’s real
It’s real when skill, strength, competence you start to lose :- Doug.
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Specific wrestling
It has to be specific, this eldering, yes? We need to meet in a particular place-time, we need to meet actual persons. We will not agree on everything important: we must wrestle. :- Doug.
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Gather yourself
We study how things have gone, we get a long view, we move beyond “Be nice, be yourself.” We no longer know who our self is. We don’t know what nice is. It will be diversity, wrestling. Show up, pay … Continue reading
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Even a message?
Ought we even have a message, or is eldering more subtle, more profound than that? :- Doug.
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Laps all the way down
How differently would you live if it were laps all the way down? :- Doug.
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Held in their laps
Maybe we’re not standing on the ancestors’ shoulders rather held in their laps :- Doug.
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We will again shake hands
These days find: the tender, kind, real part of the ones you meet; open this part in yourself to yourself and them: in our human core, adjectival as we are, we turn one another in an unfinished dance. We will … Continue reading
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Non in-person world
Now we have a non in-person world. Which means? We need to be more one on one: more personal. :- Doug.
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Call up your grandchildren
Call up your grandchildren, tell them a story. Tell them about a mistake or failure in your life. Ask them nothing. :- Doug.
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That old time rhythm
When you catch that old time rhythm When you hear a bit of rhyme Now’s the time for your practice of poetry :- Doug.
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Elders maintain or sustain?
Do we our elders maintain? Or sustain? Welcome them us to sustain? :- Doug.
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Turning in your hand
There is no safety Safety is a lie Told as if true Living is mystery Turning in your hand :- Doug.
Reliably changing
Truth is noun, ever and always, static. To true is verb, action, developing, morphing, available, alive. Truth is mirage, truing is reliably changing. :- Doug.
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Gathering with the forebears
When we are gathering with the forebears what good can we do? :- Doug.
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Tackle primeval questions
In this course we tackle the primeval questions: What is the meaning of humanicity? Shall we be elders? What is the role of our stories? :- Doug.
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Busy pandemic days
In all the busy-ness of these pandemic days I must make time to love and to reflect. These are of the same substance. Yes, I must. :- Doug.