Category Archives: Family

Deeper conversaion:

Posted on July 27, 2014 by dgermann

To invite deeper conversation: share a reflective song, for example, What a Wonderful World. :- Doug.

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Gathering a family

Posted on July 26, 2014 by dgermann

Gathering a family heart, mind, and can-do around the person most in need of our loving :- Doug.

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Just researched a bit about expressive therapy: the use of music, art, and story telling to help folks with dementia have a higher quality life. For me I understand higher quality to mean more woven into life. This study says … Continue reading →

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What good could come?

Posted on July 21, 2014 by dgermann

What good could come from letting in difference? :- Doug.

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Be strong enough to

Posted on July 20, 2014 by dgermann

Be strong enough to withhold your tongue. :- Doug.

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No roses without thorns

Posted on July 18, 2014 by dgermann

No roses without thorns red’s buds are ephemeral gentian blooms all summer humans bloom for a season pretend to fang and claw do cling to one another by generations a little immortal :- Doug.

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The final frontier?

Posted on July 17, 2014 by dgermann

Death: the final frontier. :- Doug.

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Just like the rest of us

Posted on July 15, 2014 by dgermann

Love them. They are little children in adult clothes, just like the rest of us. :- Doug.

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This can be a good thing

Posted on July 13, 2014 by dgermann

This can be a good thing. :- Doug.

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If you can’t like them

Posted on July 12, 2014 by dgermann

If you can’t like them Then at least love them :- Doug.

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Change is scary

Posted on July 1, 2014 by dgermann

Change is scary if you’re the one changed change is also growth :- Doug.

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Receiving Mode

Posted on June 29, 2014 by dgermann

Receiving mode Hear, take in All senses and lightly Only later: Speaking mode :- Doug.

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A person is a poem

Posted on June 28, 2014 by dgermann

A person is a poem through all the days of prose :- Doug.

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Children of our children’s children

Posted on June 27, 2014 by dgermann

Children of our children’s children We are When working for the common good :- Doug.

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The reader

Posted on June 26, 2014 by dgermann

The reader much as the writer makes the poem :- Doug.