These days we die so gradually we barely notice. Then comes the crisis—and we’re unprepared. So let’s work out how we can notice, perhaps prepare. We get weaker. There are ups and downs. People offer to help. We can resolve … Continue reading →

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Forgetting is a reminder

Posted on January 14, 2015 by dgermann

Forgetting is a reminder For me to be present Just now To larger To particular :- Doug.

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Future can rewrite past, soft brush

Posted on January 12, 2015 by dgermann

Healing reframes whole lives. Future can rewrite past, we can use a soft brush, a new color. :- Doug.

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Attention the lens

Posted on January 12, 2015 by dgermann

Attention may be the lens that shows us grief, pain, hate, and love, wholeness, inclusion. :- Doug.

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If I can’t remember the word

Posted on January 12, 2015 by dgermann

If I can’t remember the word, I will be still. Not for the word to come, but for what is more profound. :- Doug.

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Gaps in our speech

Posted on January 11, 2015 by dgermann

The gaps in our speech—even aphasias—can be invitations to come rest in silence…. What if precisely then we stopped to listen? Both of us? There is a rhythm to weather, the low pressure drawing wind out of the high pressure, … Continue reading →

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Remembering how

Posted on January 9, 2015 by dgermann

Remembering how Inventing how At times that’s why we converse How to what? Die Be present for this one dying Be present for this one living :- Doug.

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inexorably to healing

Posted on January 8, 2015 by dgermann

Hearing leads inexorably to healing. :- Doug.

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Remember your dying

Posted on January 8, 2015 by dgermann

Remember your dying. :- Doug.

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safe from the crisis

Posted on January 7, 2015 by dgermann

The conversations I invite take place safe from the crisis. Yet they prepare us for the crisis. In a sense they are memento mori (remember dying): memento viventium (remember living) in the face of memento mori. Not so we have … Continue reading →

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Growth of a different sort?

Posted on January 6, 2015 by dgermann

As we get older our species Draws ever smaller circles Community becomes friends Becomes family—reversing Our course of younger years Growth of a different sort? Growth work that especially The dying and the demented do :- Doug.

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meaning in completion

Posted on January 1, 2015 by dgermann

If the meaning of life is life, then how much is in the completion of it? :- Doug.

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