Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness

wells up

Posted on January 31, 2017 by dgermann

Care is sold Caring wells up :- Doug.

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Do you want to die?

Posted on January 31, 2017 by dgermann

Do you want to die, or merely expire? :- Doug.

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decision road

Posted on January 29, 2017 by dgermann

This is a decision road we are on. Here we are asked to take life consciously. We cannot un-travel this road. :- Doug.

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Who you are is why you are

Posted on January 28, 2017 by dgermann

Who you are is why you are. Who you are is ultimately your task in the world. :- Doug.

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Facing your world’s dying

Posted on January 27, 2017 by dgermann

It is facing your dying to see that you have something to give. It is facing your world and its dying beside you to take a stand, do a work. If you are to die well, then you must learn … Continue reading →

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shadows brewing

Posted on January 24, 2017 by dgermann

There is something brewing here, that there is something deeper going on in eldering. Of course. Still, there is a turning coming, and I have caught a glimpse of its shadow as it heads around the corner. :- Doug.

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I must be the first

Posted on January 21, 2017 by dgermann

If community means something I must be the first to reach out and help you. :- Doug.

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turning can be about death

Posted on January 19, 2017 by dgermann

The turning can be about death—death of body, death of ego, rebirth of soul. We are about to separate from mere adulthood and seek our initiation into something more we cannot predict. :- Doug.

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Learn from your parents?

Posted on January 17, 2017 by dgermann

What did you learn from your parents that is of value for you at this stage of your life? :- Doug.

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One with one

Posted on January 15, 2017 by dgermann

Eldering for me is about one with one. :- Doug.

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Doc, alone

Posted on January 15, 2017 by dgermann

At a party stands Doc, alone, needing our word healing human touch :- Doug.

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the doctor stands alone

Posted on January 14, 2017 by dgermann

A party: the doctor stands alone no one thinks he stands in need of our healing human touch :- Doug.

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astounding

Posted on January 12, 2017 by dgermann

Birth to adulthood, a time for individuating, separating early to late elderhood, a time for togethering and yet day is clutching, midnight is also out and opening to the macro astounding :- Doug.

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perhaps even these

Posted on January 11, 2017 by dgermann

The stroke, the broken hip, the dementia: perhaps even these all things work together for good for those who love life. :- Doug.

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Menu for the ages of aging:

Posted on January 10, 2017 by dgermann

Menu of the ages of aging: Crabby → Crappy Playing → A time to not remember Eldering → Grace Which are you choosing? :- Doug.

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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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An elder’s poetry

Posted on January 4, 2017 by dgermann

An elder’s poetry is complete if never done :- Doug.

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