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Conversing through these rapids

Posted on March 18, 2020 by dgermann

Seems to me that the fear of death and dying in this culture is at least a fear of talking about them, of conversing through these rapids. :- Doug.

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Vocabulary for this dying

Posted on March 18, 2020 by dgermann

There is not a ready vocabulary for this dying. Will I be able to express this with my course-mates? With family? Friends?I can only try. I can only take a breath and see what comes up. :- Doug.

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A shh that speaks

Posted on March 17, 2020 by dgermann

You cannot see it if You cannot say it And yet… There is a shh That speaks to our knowing :- Doug.

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language for no language

Posted on March 17, 2020 by dgermann

One of the things a poet works at for the rest of us is developing a language for things for which we have no language. For instance, death. :- Doug.

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Conversation with death

Posted on March 17, 2020 by dgermann

Let us have a conversation with death. :- Doug.

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Being in the dying room the task is witnessing. You witness my dying, ask me about what is going on, what I’m thinking with a far away look. I witness to you my thoughts, prayers, wishes, needs, and not having … Continue reading →

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Life and the dying

Posted on March 17, 2020 by dgermann

Is this subject legal? Well, is it illegal? It is living. That’s what I want to lead us to learn: life and the dying of it. :- Doug.

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What an ancestor does

Posted on March 16, 2020 by dgermann

We do not know what an ancestor is, what an ancestor does. It is a bigger role than being parent. It is a bigger role than being known. It might be effected in story. Stories we tell, stories told of … Continue reading →

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Ancestor you

Posted on March 16, 2020 by dgermann

Turn Turn your face From where you were heading From whom you were To the ancestors from whom you come To the ancestor you are becoming Turn :- Doug.

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Resting or wresting?

Posted on March 16, 2020 by dgermann

Am I resting when I ought be wresting? :- Doug.

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bones to sustain

Posted on March 16, 2020 by dgermann

If humans feel homeless in the New World, if it is in part because they have no bones of their ancestors to sustain, then what will happen when we travel to the stars, go into suspended animation for our light … Continue reading →

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Imprisoned

Posted on March 15, 2020 by dgermann

Took in a TED talk yesterday of prisoners reading bedtime stories to their children via video recording. It has application to us, imprisoned in 2020s thinking, wanting to converse with our grandchildren’s grandchildren. Love can be communicated beyond our bars. … Continue reading →

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Using your dominant hand

Posted on March 15, 2020 by dgermann

When you catch yourself using your dominant hand, think of the grandchildren, of what puts the twinkle in their eye. :- Doug.

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Fluttering quivering nuances

Posted on March 15, 2020 by dgermann

Yet I am catching a whiff of something that will add profundity to our course. Perhaps we will weep for those who are forgotten between now and 300 years. Weep to remember them. Weep to bring them forth as carers … Continue reading →

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Make count

Posted on March 15, 2020 by dgermann

Make this day count Make this conversation count :- Doug.

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Human for their grandchildren

Posted on March 15, 2020 by dgermann

Your task, elder, is to be human for those wanting, needing to be more human for their grandchildren. Think on this a few seconds every hour. :- Doug.

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Dying with a gift?

Posted on March 14, 2020 by dgermann

What are the dying doing? My answer has been: Living. I thought it profound. It is. But is there a profounder? Can we die purposely, with a gift to those who die after? :- Doug.

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