Category Archives: Conversation

Water, wind, and sun

Posted on July 31, 2015 by dgermann

Water, wind, and sun meet, merge, change converse like these :- Doug.

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Where’s the poetry?

Posted on July 29, 2015 by dgermann

Where’s the poetry in this? :- Doug.

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Pattern of the whole cloth

Posted on July 24, 2015 by dgermann

How we mend the world is through the stitches of conversation. One at a time, this piece rejoins that, and we begin to see the pattern of the whole cloth. :- Doug.

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long suit

Posted on July 24, 2015 by dgermann

My long suit is the long meeting, so that people can come out with a direction and be comfortable with it. :- Doug.

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You maybe want to talk

Posted on July 23, 2015 by dgermann

You maybe want to talk about people who have died, or deaths you have witnessed, or medical care, or vivere dum mori (live while you are dying). :- Doug.

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Death Café Death Over Dinner

Posted on July 23, 2015 by dgermann

Let us take Death Café and Death Over Dinner to a practical level. Let us meet for a day, a few families to round out our thinking and take it deeper, let us come out with knowing each other better, … Continue reading →

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always larger

Posted on July 23, 2015 by dgermann

There is a larger way of looking at this. :- Doug.

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You must vindicate me

Posted on July 22, 2015 by dgermann

You must vindicate me You must show what I say You are the promise of me :- Doug.

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each good

Posted on July 22, 2015 by dgermann

Varying and each good—aha! :- Doug.

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Fear the enemy

Posted on July 22, 2015 by dgermann

Fear the enemy Love the commonality Hiding the tactic Saying who we are the armor Gathering of brokenness the strength Conversing the easy courage How we live our dying the common ground Fights the halfway up the mountain Leaving them … Continue reading →

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most important thing to convey

Posted on July 21, 2015 by dgermann

In starting the conversation, the most important thing to convey is your openness to have the conversation. :- Doug.

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In this present illness

Posted on July 20, 2015 by dgermann

In this present illness when we each try to be strong for both of us strength may be more in sharing our weaknesses :- Doug.

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a center forms

Posted on July 19, 2015 by dgermann

When we gather a circle a center forms. :- Doug.

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one another

Posted on July 18, 2015 by dgermann

Engage one another :- Doug.

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when most difficult

Posted on July 15, 2015 by dgermann

Conversations are most valuable when most difficult to grow: facing death, grief, anger, confusion, fear. We can discover ways to overcome the difficulty. :- Doug.

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Continuously re-encounter

Posted on July 15, 2015 by dgermann

Continuously re-encounter :- Doug.

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The shell between us is thin

Posted on July 9, 2015 by dgermann

The shell between us is thin in places and thick If it does not crack here…. :- Doug.

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