Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness

Is it about how long you live

Posted on March 17, 2015 by dgermann

Is it about how long you live Or how much you live? How would you make your days Full of life? Some prefer quantity because they Can’t imagine How to fill days with life :- Doug.

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It is not right to give up We need to sustain Mother’s life But give up what? Beeping machines, blood draws at 2 am, Strangers changing her diaper? Holding a grandchild? Recognizing her husband? :- Doug.

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There comes a now

Posted on March 16, 2015 by dgermann

There comes a now For me to give up cure And work on healing. :- Doug.

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same line

Posted on March 16, 2015 by dgermann

Consider: polarities share the same line. :- Doug.

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stand in the way

Posted on March 15, 2015 by dgermann

Words can lead us up to the window and then they stand in the way. :- Doug.

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Then comes another

Posted on March 14, 2015 by dgermann

What results are ever final? Then comes another season. :- Doug.

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at last

Posted on March 12, 2015 by dgermann

Live well at last. :- Doug.

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We have seasons

Posted on March 11, 2015 by dgermann

We have seasons We pass through them Or they pass through us No matter which Now we are faced with this Non ease which will end us Compel us in snowy cold To remove our garment of skin and hair … Continue reading →

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For others, for others

Posted on March 10, 2015 by dgermann

This dying might be your now To do your highest Work For others, for others Only in the For For you :- Doug.

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Live live your death

Posted on March 10, 2015 by dgermann

Live live your death Not merely comfort: Meaning :- Doug.

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Die a death fitting for your living

Posted on March 9, 2015 by dgermann

This chapter can reframe All the rest Die a death fitting for your living This is the Work Here your spirit shows through Now you teach now you learn Up you might go as you away This can be your … Continue reading →

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We do not have courage to love

Posted on March 8, 2015 by dgermann

We do not have the courage to love. We do not know how to find the courage to love. You work in a nursing home. You are not a manager. You want to be caring to those you are given … Continue reading →

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he-he

Posted on March 8, 2015 by dgermann

Every time you and your wife interact, you are a different you, she a different she-she and you a different he-he. :- Doug.

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Will I be relevant to me?

Posted on March 8, 2015 by dgermann

Will I be relevant to me? A year or two from now? A step or two down my road? :- Doug.

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Making the decision easier?

Posted on March 7, 2015 by dgermann

Is asking What would Dad want a way of making our decision easier? Yes, and that is not bad. But sometimes we need to think harder and more deeply for ourselves—and them. What is a good child to do? :- … Continue reading →

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open and trade

Posted on March 6, 2015 by dgermann

What I open is my heart What I trade is my story :- Doug.

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From my tree stand

Posted on March 6, 2015 by dgermann

From my tree stand I photograph what goes on just below how you—we—enculturated enculturating treat those a few years ahead of us in line :- Doug.

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