Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness

Fear the enemy

Posted on July 22, 2015 by dgermann

Fear the enemy Love the commonality Hiding the tactic Saying who we are the armor Gathering of brokenness the strength Conversing the easy courage How we live our dying the common ground Fights the halfway up the mountain Leaving them … Continue reading →

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Where the juice spills out

Posted on July 21, 2015 by dgermann

We’re all broken The broken parts are where The juice spills out! :- Doug.

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Vivere dum mori

Posted on July 20, 2015 by dgermann

Live while you die. Vivere dum mori. :- Doug.

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In this present illness

Posted on July 20, 2015 by dgermann

In this present illness when we each try to be strong for both of us strength may be more in sharing our weaknesses :- Doug.

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Give it a billion Dollars

Posted on July 18, 2015 by dgermann

Give it a billion Dollars, the human mind will still worry. :- Doug.

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We all pour out our life

Posted on July 17, 2015 by dgermann

We all pour out our life In the living of our ordinary days Memento vivere :- Doug.

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elder caring gathering

Posted on July 17, 2015 by dgermann

Let us call the elder caring gathering with people who are respectful, good, kind, creative, profound, adult, effective, collaborative, and amazing! :- Doug.

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Young ears cannot

Posted on July 16, 2015 by dgermann

Young ears cannot hear Old ears catch subtle frequencies: Dying, deepening, sacred :- Doug.

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Continuously re-encounter

Posted on July 15, 2015 by dgermann

Continuously re-encounter :- Doug.

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our last loving

Posted on July 14, 2015 by dgermann

Death for most of us No big ta-da! Expect only a sigh How prepare to give our last loving? What blessings give? What whole-making words and hugs? What messages? What send-ons for our family? :- Doug.

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stories matter most

Posted on July 14, 2015 by dgermann

In end of life, stories matter and matter most. In stories, what matters is the ending. Here in life we never know ending. More importantly we can make choices of how our chapter ends, how it prefigures the next. :- … Continue reading →

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Party

Posted on July 11, 2015 by dgermann

Party. Old Friends. Moving away. Saying good bye. Saying. Talking. Bob’s heart attack. Reading Old Testament. Bloody battles. Slaughtering tribes. Joyce’s broken wrist. Drive her to church. Less grey hair all around. More white. Bruce has cancer in his good … Continue reading →

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A Will can be sacred

Posted on July 10, 2015 by dgermann

A Will can be sacred. :- Doug.

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mind with age grows hollow

Posted on July 9, 2015 by dgermann

The person’s mind with age grows hollow This is when we should them hallow For empty is the greater part of whole :- Doug.

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Dragging them back?

Posted on July 8, 2015 by dgermann

If people do not come back from dementia why spend so much time trying to drag them back? Ought we instead go forward? :- Doug.

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Is this courage little?

Posted on July 5, 2015 by dgermann

In ignorant space The open space of not knowing Of not knowing being Can we courageously here attend? Is this courage little? :- Doug.

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It’s good to be

Posted on July 5, 2015 by dgermann

It’s good to be attending you attending you it’s good to be :- Doug.

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