Category Archives: Conversation

Birth is a terminal condition….

Posted on April 18, 2013 by dgermann

Birth is a terminal condition. So we are working on our dying even today, in good health, while our daily rounds continue. This conversing about what care we want at end of life is saying I love you to one … Continue reading →

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The uncommonly good

Posted on April 12, 2013 by dgermann

Let’s look among us for the uncommonly good. :- Doug.

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Who’s doing it well?

Posted on April 10, 2013 by dgermann

Who’s doing it well? Follow that one. :- Doug.

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Make room

Posted on April 9, 2013 by dgermann

Help families make room for a good death. :- Doug.

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Let us be sharing stories

Posted on April 8, 2013 by dgermann

Let us be sharing stories of people dying well. :- Doug.

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Loving them as they die?

Posted on April 6, 2013 by dgermann

How then shall we live as we die? How then shall we love them as they die? :- Doug.

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Unrealistic expectations

Posted on April 5, 2013 by dgermann

There was a phrase in one end of life study report I read this morning: unrealistic expectations. Families have unrealistic expectations about what can be done for their loved one at the end of life. We can say that whatever … Continue reading →

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This is harder on your family:

Posted on April 3, 2013 by dgermann

It’s harder on your family to not have the conversation. :- Doug.

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“California daughters?”

Posted on April 1, 2013 by dgermann

What if we invited a room full of “California Daughters” to talk about end of life care for Mom and Dad? :- Doug.

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Nelson Mandela’s biggest conversation was in solitary

Posted on March 19, 2013 by dgermann

Nelson Mandela started his biggest conversation, the one that ended Apartheid, while in solitary confinement. What conversation can we start, given our life condition? What higher purpose do we own that will get us beyond our walls? :- Doug.

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Here might be our highest value

Posted on March 14, 2013 by dgermann

When our eyes meet— When our ears meet— Passes between us humanity & here might be our highest value :- Doug.

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asking for a bit of you

Posted on March 13, 2013 by dgermann

In conversation I am giving myself away asking for a bit of you leaving you free to make the gift. :- Doug.

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Knowing the name of our disease

Posted on February 28, 2013 by dgermann

We create our world out of language. Once we put a word to something, we have lifted up this something from the background, given it color and edges. This is why we are desperate to know the name of our … Continue reading →

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I don’t have the answers

Posted on February 18, 2013 by dgermann

I don’t have the answers, but we together have better questions. :- Doug.

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Not a technician

Posted on February 11, 2013 by dgermann

I am not a technician. I’m a human-in-conversation. :- Doug.

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Readying for the two way opening

Posted on January 17, 2013 by dgermann

Conversation is not only telling another nor yet only hearing the other it is as well readying for the two way opening :- Doug.

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Something good in their hearts

Posted on January 12, 2013 by dgermann

Humans don’t so much convey to people as from them: Family does not know what is best for their loved one; Still, they have —beneath their unbending positions— something good in their hearts We as helpers are called to go … Continue reading →

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