Category Archives: Eldering

make whole?

Posted on May 18, 2015 by dgermann

What does it mean to make whole? :- Doug.

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Nurses, CNAs, doctors, and social workers

Posted on May 17, 2015 by dgermann

Nurses, CNAs, doctors, and social workers find their higher callings to help being quashed by greed thinking. We can stand up for them by speaking truth to power, but even more directly by letting them see their own creative powers … Continue reading →

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people with a disease

Posted on May 16, 2015 by dgermann

We are not here to care for people with a disease, we are here to meet. Seeing the face of a disease and not the person is an issue for our society. :- Doug.

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now the process has become visible to us

Posted on May 14, 2015 by dgermann

Persons grow out of meeting: meeting-relation is the primary thing and the persons secondary and generated. What this leads me to is that the person is not the brain, the brain is not the person, and that more fundamental than … Continue reading →

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Retire?

Posted on May 13, 2015 by dgermann

Retire? I have too much to do! :- Doug.

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Let us write lists of our dying

Posted on May 6, 2015 by dgermann

Let us write lists of our dying Things important even significant Dare to see the larger Maybe it will be poetry Our life as poem :- Doug.

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the best that should happen now?

Posted on May 4, 2015 by dgermann

What is the best that should happen now? Why don’t you see to it? :- Doug.

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Is there life after nursing home?

Posted on May 2, 2015 by dgermann

Is there life after nursing home? We can make that life, if we have the gumption. We can get out all the books and articles about helping children learn to read and to become independent, and see what makes sense. … Continue reading →

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Be the love

Posted on April 30, 2015 by dgermann

Be the love you once thought ought belong here. :- Doug.

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presence

Posted on April 22, 2015 by dgermann

A lawyer’s stock in trade is presence. :- Doug.

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This is where you can

Posted on April 19, 2015 by dgermann

This is where you can let through your humanity—your kindness—the best self you ever thought you could be. :- Doug.

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I need a soft day

Posted on April 19, 2015 by dgermann

I need a soft day a day to ponder, reflect, to see the tracks of the larger :- Doug.

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Life is in service

Posted on April 17, 2015 by dgermann

Life is in service. How are you in loving service this next moment? :- Doug.

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grandchildren flowers and bugs

Posted on April 15, 2015 by dgermann

We show our grandchildren flowers and bugs and things of wonder. We know primally to arouse passions. :- Doug.

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The antidote

Posted on April 3, 2015 by dgermann

The antidote is about presence. :- Doug.

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worse than not knowing what dying looks like

Posted on April 1, 2015 by dgermann

Worse than not knowing what dying looks like, we do not have any idea what living while dying can look like. :- Doug.

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trajectory of your disease

Posted on March 31, 2015 by dgermann

Which trajectory do you see for your disease? Up, down, a bump in the road? Draw it, please. :- Doug.

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