Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness

Now I don’t matter

Posted on March 6, 2015 by dgermann

Now I don’t matter I don’t care I don’t know the difference Your actions speak Even in Now My individuality matters I am not a thing Grist for your mill A task in your list I am A person Who … Continue reading →

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Elderly is a dismissal;

Posted on March 5, 2015 by dgermann

Elderly is a dismissal; Elder is a term of respect, reverence, veneration :- Doug.

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anger and the expected

Posted on March 5, 2015 by dgermann

There’s a disconnect between What we expected and what happens That’s where the anger works us :- Doug.

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to see inside a person

Posted on March 5, 2015 by dgermann

You can see inside a person by the questions He or she asks —and does not ask :- Doug.

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Do no harm

Posted on March 4, 2015 by dgermann

How our way of thinking, seeing everything in numbers and statistics and Dollars, fearing face to face, forcing people to have so many patients they cannot find out who they are, is causing suffering and wrong deaths! We can meet … Continue reading →

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What life are we doing everything to keep going?

Posted on March 4, 2015 by dgermann

What life are we doing everything to keep going? The tubes and technology and drug-induced grogginess, interacting with new strangers every few hours? Or the most profound days of our lives? What can we do to make the latter? :- … Continue reading →

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death and anonymity

Posted on March 3, 2015 by dgermann

To endure the death and sufferings of patients doctors can distance themselves from names and relationships. But what if the deaths are contributed to by anonymity, what if our attitude toward persons—persons!—directly caused the suffering? Theirs and ours? :- Doug.

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a more gentle outcome

Posted on March 3, 2015 by dgermann

Why do everything possible to keep someone alive when nature has decided a more gentle outcome? :- Doug.

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At what age?

Posted on March 3, 2015 by dgermann

At what age do we become ineligible to be seen and treated as a person? :- Doug.

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Life will inevitably advance

Posted on March 2, 2015 by dgermann

Life will inevitably advance How to you want to live Then? :- Doug.

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frame your life?

Posted on March 1, 2015 by dgermann

Since every chapter reframes everything before how will you have your death frame your life? :- Doug.

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This morning I did not want to call

Posted on March 1, 2015 by dgermann

This morning I did not want to call a certain person. “It will take care of itself” I thought. But I forced myself to call. This conversation I need to initiate. Things will not get better if we ignore each … Continue reading →

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Meditating or shoveling snow

Posted on February 28, 2015 by dgermann

Meditating or shoveling snow, sleeping, eating, talking with another, or to myself: all this, all there is, is holy, is doing the Work, the Living, the Loving, the flow of the between. That is enough. That is all there is. … Continue reading →

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The larger is in

Posted on February 21, 2015 by dgermann

The larger is in The small of life too Sitting, waiting, engaged :- Doug.

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Know

Posted on February 21, 2015 by dgermann

If you’re in it You know :- Doug.

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Evidence based

Posted on February 20, 2015 by dgermann

Evidence based is a term of endearment in the medical and academic communities. It is otherwise for me. I see it as a way we avoid coming to grips with real people. It converts everyone and every story into a … Continue reading →

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Invitation

Posted on February 20, 2015 by dgermann

I tend toward anger when my heart is not received. Strange! I should tend toward compassion. Compassion for the other. Compassion for my own soul wanting to feel and express anger over the hurt. It is OK to fight, I … Continue reading →

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