Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness

Conversations within conversations

Posted on April 13, 2016 by dgermann

Living beings are conversations within conversations—autonomous but requiring each other. Bacteria within bodies, cells within bacteria, persons within families, wind water sun earth within our planetary system. :- Doug.

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our confusion over bathing

Posted on April 8, 2016 by dgermann

What if our confusion over bathing were simply the fogginess and dislike we experience on being rudely awakened from a beautiful dream? :- Doug.

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Conversing with time itself

Posted on March 31, 2016 by dgermann

All’s a conversation: one with others, birds with wind, horses with flies, cedars with snows, you with me. Making clock time for the conversation is impossible: it is designed to be fixed spaces that tick away without mercy. Kairos time … Continue reading →

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My life has been a search for words

Posted on March 29, 2016 by dgermann

My life has been a search for words; how fitting I should now be given more for which to search! :- Doug.

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Not what we talk about

Posted on March 28, 2016 by dgermann

It’s not what we talk about; it’s that we intend to converse, to together. :- Doug.

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The sources of meaning in your life?

Posted on March 26, 2016 by dgermann

What are the sources of meaning in your life? love, work, history, family, friends, pain, joy, creativity, responsibility, beauty, truth, goodness, humor, hugs, food, smells, music, lessons to give, stories to tell, people you need to forgive, be forgiven by, … Continue reading →

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Finally have enough material

Posted on March 24, 2016 by dgermann

In old age we finally have enough material to make something of ourselves! :- Doug.

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What is the work?

Posted on March 24, 2016 by dgermann

What is the work people—even people with dementia—are doing in old age? :- Doug.

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Deeper if I let them

Posted on March 24, 2016 by dgermann

People will go deeper if I let them, if for instance I do not step on their lines. :- Doug.

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Be clear of one thing:

Posted on March 18, 2016 by dgermann

Be clear of one thing: open to one another. This is love. :- Doug.

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makes young

Posted on March 13, 2016 by dgermann

Conversation energizes Conversation makes young Conversation heals :- Doug.

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A thread is running

Posted on March 8, 2016 by dgermann

A thread is running from you all the way back it’s living tissue made of grandparents see? they’re all related :- Doug.

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What ceremonies and doings?

Posted on March 7, 2016 by dgermann

What ceremonies, rituals, and doings around death have you seen people carry out? Especially those leading up to a good death? :- Doug.

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Profound moments

Posted on March 7, 2016 by dgermann

Kairos: Profound moments :- Doug.

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Not going on?

Posted on March 6, 2016 by dgermann

What in the name of conversing is not going on here? :- 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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The soul is not essential to life

Posted on March 2, 2016 by dgermann

The soul is not essential to life only to living :- Doug.

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