Category Archives: Family

How can they happen reliably?

Posted on October 29, 2012 by dgermann

How can we help the conversations happen reliably, involving as many of the group of care givers (of whatever profession), family and our living person? :- Doug.

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Conversation is not about simply dragging out what’s inside you. It is about shaping it. It is about discovering it. It is about co-creating it. I had not thought about dying on the boat dock till my friend Jerry voiced … Continue reading →

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As actor withdraws from scene

Posted on October 12, 2012 by dgermann

As actor withdraws from scene As scenes roll on As this story told is but a part of the stories of each of the actors of the stories of each spectator & friend So now I withdraw :- Doug.

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On the boat dock watching the sun

Posted on October 12, 2012 by dgermann

People need this conversation about living well our last chapter. They need to realize that as Jerry Walthall said, some of us want to die on the boat dock watching the sun and drinking a beer with our dog. I’d … Continue reading →

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A doing with

Posted on October 11, 2012 by dgermann

Care is a thing done to a person; caring is a doing with a whole family. :- Doug.

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Gathering, loosening

Posted on October 11, 2012 by dgermann

When we are born there is a gathering of the stuff of the all just here just here So when we die there is a loosening just here just for now :- Doug.

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Start the melting

Posted on October 9, 2012 by dgermann

As I look around this people, I see the salt of the earth. Today, the world about us is icy: together you can start the melting. :- Doug.

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First, live well together….

Posted on October 9, 2012 by dgermann

First, live well together; second, see how the money parts can serve your living. :- Doug.

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A thousand right ways to converse….

Posted on October 7, 2012 by dgermann

There are a thousand right ways to converse, a thousand right ways to love! :- Doug.

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No How only Do

Posted on October 7, 2012 by dgermann

For deepening of conversation Is no how only do :- Doug.

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There is more here.

Posted on October 6, 2012 by dgermann

There is more here. :- Doug.

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Sometimes we do not feel like conversing….

Posted on October 5, 2012 by dgermann

Sometimes we do not feel like conversing. Sometimes nothing comes to mind. In these cases go to our early training—to answer questions, always to answer questions of our teachers and parents. And deeper into our unconscious: relate stories. These prime … Continue reading →

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No one right way to do conversation

Posted on October 4, 2012 by dgermann

There is no one right way to do the conversation: there are a thousand right ways. & we need to hear from our fellows—you!—we are doing it aright. :- Doug.

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Said better

Posted on October 1, 2012 by dgermann

Some of the most profound things are said better in poetry sometimes better yet in silence :- Doug.

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With a waiting….

Posted on September 29, 2012 by dgermann

Maybe you want to punctuate your conversations with a waiting…an opening of space for a larger meeting. :- Doug.

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Both seed and soil

Posted on September 28, 2012 by dgermann

Exchange conversation is, a barter, only you each keep what you brought and add the other’s, and if grace smiles, a child of these. :- Doug.

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Exchange it is

Posted on September 27, 2012 by dgermann

Exchange conversation is, a barter, only you each keep what you brought and add the other’s, and if grace smiles, a child of these. :- Doug.

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