Category Archives: Eldering

Call up your grandchildren

Posted on April 9, 2020 by dgermann

Call up your grandchildren, tell them a story. Tell them about a mistake or failure in your life. Ask them nothing. :- Doug.

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Will I like dying?

Posted on April 5, 2020 by dgermann

A good death? Will I like death? Can anybody ever like dying? Many in great pain long for the quiet of death, the rest of death. For them, the pain is the dying. It seems logical that we can like … Continue reading →

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Elders maintain or sustain?

Posted on April 5, 2020 by dgermann

Do we our elders maintain? Or sustain? Welcome them us to sustain? :- Doug.

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Turning in your hand

Posted on April 4, 2020 by dgermann

There is no safety Safety is a lie Told as if true Living is mystery Turning in your hand :- Doug.

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Reliably changing

Posted on April 4, 2020 by dgermann

Truth is noun, ever and always, static. To true is verb, action, developing, morphing, available, alive. Truth is mirage, truing is reliably changing. :- Doug.

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Gathering with the forebears

Posted on April 4, 2020 by dgermann

When we are gathering with the forebears what good can we do? :- Doug.

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Tackle primeval questions

Posted on April 4, 2020 by dgermann

In this course we tackle the primeval questions: What is the meaning of humanicity? Shall we be elders? What is the role of our stories? :- Doug.

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Busy pandemic days

Posted on April 3, 2020 by dgermann

In all the busy-ness of these pandemic days I must make time to love and to reflect. These are of the same substance. Yes, I must. :- Doug.

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Stay healthy

Posted on April 3, 2020 by dgermann

Stay healthy. Keep loving. Reflect. :- Doug.

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Pandemic open us?

Posted on April 3, 2020 by dgermann

To what can this pandemic open us? What can we see now we didn’t before? Let’s look all the way to seeing :- Doug.

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A dying whose time has come

Posted on April 3, 2020 by dgermann

This pandemic is a death; certainly many die. But it is, if we let it, a dying of something whose time has come in our culture. We are now in fearing, that is, in anticipatory grieving. Soon we will be … Continue reading →

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January baby boom

Posted on April 2, 2020 by dgermann

Consider we will have a January baby boom Consider we make time to consider, to reflect :- Doug.

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Let’s not go back

Posted on April 2, 2020 by dgermann

Let’s not go back to business as usual Let’s go better to serving life and living :- Doug.

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We don’t need to get through covid-19

Posted on April 2, 2020 by dgermann

After Covid-19, it’s a new world out there. We don’t need to get through it, we need to help one another get through it. To a new side. :- Doug.

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Pandemic turn

Posted on April 2, 2020 by dgermann

Could this pandemic Turn us to one another Maybe we’ll find our purpose is each other? :- Doug.

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Pandemic interruption

Posted on April 2, 2020 by dgermann

Is this pandemic an interruption Or is it our generation’s main path? :- Doug.

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Because you see this other

Posted on April 1, 2020 by dgermann

You are because another sees you You are because another hears you Whom do you see and hear in 300 years? :- Doug.

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