Category Archives: Family

When we change our choices

Posted on August 31, 2012 by dgermann

When we change our choices, it is often that something new informs the criteria upon which we base our choices: our fundamentals have remained constant. :- Doug.

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Your end of life conversation?

Posted on August 21, 2012 by dgermann

What would you like your end of life conversation with your family to be? :- Doug.

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Our ethical task

Posted on August 19, 2012 by dgermann

Our ethical task is to somehow find each other, to help each other find our own way. :- Doug.

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What is more important than that?

Posted on August 18, 2012 by dgermann

In family, in community, we can help each other live well. What is more important than that? :- Doug.

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sticking our nose in

Posted on August 17, 2012 by dgermann

Sometimes we are called to stick our nose in where we might otherwise think it did not belong. :- Doug.

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If we can’t laugh

Posted on August 16, 2012 by dgermann

If we can’t laugh, what sanity is there? :- Doug.

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Conversation: what matters

Posted on July 17, 2012 by dgermann

Conversation: what matters. :- Doug.

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When Mom is pulled up by the roots Replanted in a nursing home We are ripped apart There is a hole in the garden Or we can see the garden wider Extending to the nursing home Fertilized by love What … Continue reading →

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See the brother and sister

Posted on July 12, 2012 by dgermann

See the brother and sister from far ends of the country who are dumping their mother in the best nursing home money can buy, easing their consciences by spending her money on her “care,” when she needed their presence. :- … Continue reading →

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So near

Posted on July 11, 2012 by dgermann

So near So hear :- Doug So near So hear

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Love letters to our families

Posted on July 8, 2012 by dgermann

Wills, Trusts, Powers of Attorney, Personal Care Agreements, Living Wills, end of life caring, Long-Term Caring: I help people write love letters to their families. :- Doug.

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Potent disjunction

Posted on June 30, 2012 by dgermann

Potent disjunction Disjunction: disparity, diversity, wholeness, fullness, roundness Potent: possible, powerful, wholeness, fullness, creative Our family: potent disjunction calling us forth :- Doug.

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not primarily legal

Posted on June 28, 2012 by dgermann

The end of life conversation is not only or primarily legal. The end of life conversation is not only or primarily medical. The end of life conversation is not only but is primarily familial—of the human family. :- Doug.

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Elder fun

Posted on June 27, 2012 by dgermann

Friends– http://www.deepfun.com/fun/category/theory/elder-fun/ :- Doug.

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Invite conversations of life and.

Posted on June 27, 2012 by dgermann

I invite conversations of life and. :- Doug.

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Law is not about forcing someone

Posted on June 26, 2012 by dgermann

Law is not about forcing someone to do what you want, but about inventing your way to live together, to thrive together. :- Doug.

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3 Tools to start the end of life conversation

Posted on June 25, 2012 by dgermann

Friends– Here is an excellent article with really good advice: http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2012/03/3-tools-start-life-conversation.html We would all do well to read it! :- Doug.

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