Category Archives: Caring

Your heart, seasoned

Posted on January 11, 2013 by dgermann

Speak what is upon your heart, seasoned. :- Doug.

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Slow me!

Posted on January 10, 2013 by dgermann

Slow me, slow me! Sometimes I want to quickly move along. Yet the best of life is always here. :- Doug.

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Too early–so far–not yet

Posted on January 7, 2013 by dgermann

Let us use phrases like too early—so far—not yet. It is compassionate. It says there is more good to come, more good for us to find. Together. :- Doug.

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Rest reflect renew

Posted on January 4, 2013 by dgermann

Rest reflect renew :- Doug.

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What do we want to create together?

Posted on December 25, 2012 by dgermann

What do we want to create together? In this community, and around the question of end of life caring conversations? :- Doug.

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On not selling my time

Posted on December 21, 2012 by dgermann

Not so much my time I sell but offer you a companion walking alongside with :- Doug.

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pouring out

Posted on December 20, 2012 by dgermann

In the work we do each day, To the people around us, We each pour out our lives :- Doug.

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Uncertainty

Posted on December 19, 2012 by dgermann

Uncertainty is all we have :- Doug.

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Cuddly lawyer

Posted on November 25, 2012 by dgermann

I’m a lawyer of the soft, cuddly, tender, gentle, kindly, mild, openhearted, large hearted, easy variety. :- Doug.

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More folded?

Posted on November 22, 2012 by dgermann

How can we be more folded into one another’s lives? :- Doug.

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Helping families coalesce

Posted on November 19, 2012 by dgermann

We are helping families coalesce. :- Doug.

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Provoking caring conversations?

Posted on November 18, 2012 by dgermann

How shall we provoke and disturb people into caring conversations? Collect stories of how people were made to die in suffering. :- Doug.

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My job is to shake up

Posted on November 17, 2012 by dgermann

My job is to shake up a bit those folks under my care to get them to do good for their family, their community, and themselves. :- Doug.

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Stand in for theirs

Posted on November 15, 2012 by dgermann

Contribute also your curiosity and courage—your wings and heart to stand in for theirs when necessary. :- Doug.

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Medicine is a friend touching your hand in the hospital, a doctor kindly telling you it is OK to say good-bye to your husband, another doctor saying people only die because I do not know enough to keep them alive. … Continue reading →

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The velocity of our lives

Posted on November 6, 2012 by dgermann

We can know velocity of our lives and our financial position and our direction, but at most two at a given time: the third will be undefinable. :- Doug.

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Living until we die?

Posted on November 5, 2012 by dgermann

How then shall we live until we die? How shall we die as we live? Does dying have to be a separate thing, even with its mystery? :- Doug.

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