Category Archives: Grieving

We may be here for the sole purpose

Posted on January 9, 2017 by dgermann

We may be here for the sole purpose —the soul purpose— of helping one another through grief This may be why tears bring us closer than anything else weaving, weaving despair, outrage, vulnerability, lostness into souls, weaving :- Doug.

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O what missing words!

Posted on November 7, 2016 by dgermann

O what missing words! All the better to converse with you! :- Doug.

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flashes suddenly between us

Posted on March 13, 2016 by dgermann

Daily we hear others’ voices But not that within The soul we share And are Till death flashes suddenly between us :- Doug.

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If you do go gentle

Posted on March 5, 2016 by dgermann

You can also grow from that dark night if you do go gentle :- Doug.

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great growth and gentle

Posted on March 4, 2016 by dgermann

Death is for everyone gathered a potential for great growth and gentle :- Doug.

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A grocery sack full of photos

Posted on February 29, 2016 by dgermann

A grocery sack full of photos my parents left who are these people? This picture was important—why? No longer any one to ask I threw out the bag and grieve :- Doug.

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a good day!

Posted on January 21, 2016 by dgermann

This is going to be a good day! :- Doug.

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Going well?

Posted on January 3, 2016 by dgermann

What’s going well? :- Doug.

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Our elders deserve our respect

Posted on November 18, 2015 by dgermann

Our elders deserve our respect. Notice that when we age we deal with Loss and Worth, and these tightly bound in tuggle and huggle with one another. :- Doug.

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I get to openly love

Posted on October 6, 2015 by dgermann

Elder caring is the only field of law where I get to openly love my clients. :- Doug.

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Leaky, fuzzy family

Posted on September 30, 2015 by dgermann
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In need of dying

Posted on August 5, 2015 by dgermann

I want to die kindly with others hearing me. I cannot give you any hard and fast rules. Just: be kind; be gentle; be loving; be wrapped in my love. I want you to converse together—you who love me, you … Continue reading →

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Where’s the poetry?

Posted on July 29, 2015 by dgermann

Where’s the poetry in this? :- Doug.

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You maybe want to talk

Posted on July 23, 2015 by dgermann

You maybe want to talk about people who have died, or deaths you have witnessed, or medical care, or vivere dum mori (live while you are dying). :- Doug.

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always larger

Posted on July 23, 2015 by dgermann

There is a larger way of looking at this. :- Doug.

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You must vindicate me

Posted on July 22, 2015 by dgermann

You must vindicate me You must show what I say You are the promise of me :- Doug.

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Mary Jo died this morning

Posted on June 6, 2015 by dgermann

Mary Jo died this morning another string is severed like when my parents died again and more we float free :- Doug.

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