Author Archives: dgermann
We have not yet
We have not yet learned the lesson of 9-11. :- Doug.
Posted in Eldering, Emergency/Crisis Medical
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Joy to get a call
What a joy to get a call To be touched by another soul! :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Family, Poetry
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Pandemic stories
We’re still at the place in this pandemic where we tell numbers as if they were the story—numbers of confirmed cases, numbers dead, numbers tested. Or, we tell vignettes of people experiencing it. Is there yet another story? :- Doug.
A good long while
If it’s going to do us any good, this pandemic will have to last a good long while. :- Doug.
Craft is strength
The craft of storytelling The strength of storytelling :- Doug.
Posted in Eldering, Poetry
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The long and the far
We have trained ourselves all our lives in shortness of sight. Now we must re-focus on the long and the far. We are able. It will be hard work. :- Doug.
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Can you see?
Can you see? Can you see them? You can If you look far enough Over the horizon :- Doug.
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So few elders, so many old
Why do we have so few elders among so many old people? 1. We don’t know what elders look like. 2. We have no schools of elders. 3. We fight age and its developments. 4. Why else? The reason for … Continue reading
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Like me in mine
Like me in mine, you in all your years have probably not learned a thing. In this age, now, it is time learn. Something of value of the 300-year grandchild elders. Some things that may traverse centuries. :- Doug.
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remember we never
Sometimes we are charged to remember something we never knew. :- Doug.
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Great Rememberers
Until you feel the press of responsibility, you will not be tellers of important story, the great Rememberers. :- Doug.
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Another hill
What’s here, over the hill? Another hill—between us and the 11th generation. :- Doug.
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Throwing out without throwing up
In our course we work at learning something, throwing out that of which we were certain, taking in contraries without throwing up. :- Doug.
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Six impossible things
In this course, we will try on as many as six impossible things before breakfast. :- Doug.
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I’m going to do
I’m going to do what I can to keep this part of the world turning. More I cannot, less I ought not. :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Eldering, Professional Caregivers
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That’s what poets do
That’s what poets do take us to deeps take us to longer :- Doug.
Posted in Eldering, Poetry
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