Category Archives: Eldering

What role for family?

Posted on April 25, 2013 by dgermann

What of the role of the family and others who love the dying person? Are they merely empty conduits for the carrying of information? How can we love our families in the ways we choose to die? Should we for … Continue reading →

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The Work and the Words of Dying?

Posted on April 16, 2013 by dgermann

What are The Work and Words of Dying? :- Doug.

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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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No guarantees: only curiosity

Posted on April 4, 2013 by dgermann

No guarantees: only curiosity. :- Doug.

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Can you identify these elders?

Posted on March 24, 2013 by dgermann

I need your help to identify elders who bring wisdom and a longer view to those around them and the world…. :- Doug.

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Whose ancestor are you?

Posted on March 23, 2013 by dgermann

Whose ancestor are you? Are you doing the kind of ancestoring they need? :- Doug.

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For how long do we want our family to continue?

Posted on March 22, 2013 by dgermann

For how long do we want our family to continue? As elders we’re the ones with clear enough vision to see into the future 10 years, a generation, seven generations, a thousand years, a million. As harried as our society … Continue reading →

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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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With Elders’ Eyes

Posted on March 18, 2013 by dgermann

We should honor not only our insights but our pain and even our despair for our world. Avoiding it, running away from our pain and despair, is doing us no good. If we look with long-view eyes, wise eyes, elders’ … Continue reading →

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I am responsible

Posted on February 19, 2013 by dgermann

I am responsible though I do not control I can create that which I will not direct Community, relatedness, us This is ever the way Love demands responsibility and starting Looks not to results Bringing a new life into the … Continue reading →

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Birth & death ultimacies

Posted on February 19, 2013 by dgermann

Birth & death —our ultimate times— we can glimpse ultimacy glimpse is all we need to dissolve our other-wiseness :- Doug.

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I work on the spiritual end of life

Posted on February 17, 2013 by dgermann

I work on the spiritual end of life. :- Doug.

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When I get older….

Posted on February 15, 2013 by dgermann

I think if I were older and unable to move around much, I would want to meet with a spiritual director and probably artists to work on my creativity and open my spirit. :- Doug.

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Life is in the interruptions

Posted on January 16, 2013 by dgermann

Life is in the interruptions. :- Doug.

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Your heart, seasoned

Posted on January 11, 2013 by dgermann

Speak what is upon your heart, seasoned. :- 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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