Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness

meaning in completion

Posted on January 1, 2015 by dgermann

If the meaning of life is life, then how much is in the completion of it? :- Doug.

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Uncertain

Posted on December 29, 2014 by dgermann

The more we can do to help a disease, the more uncertain the timing. As diseases move from acute to chronic, the less we know when our end is coming. :- Doug.

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the long conference

Posted on December 29, 2014 by dgermann

My forte is the long conference. It is important to me to know people, to absorb one another. :- Doug.

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As if this were the day?

Posted on December 27, 2014 by dgermann

The question of living while we’re dying is one of living with uncertainty in the extreme. We don’t know what the next test or procedure will produce, but can we not live and love as if this were the day … Continue reading →

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Unless we so clench our teeth

Posted on December 27, 2014 by dgermann

There is nothing wrong with looking for minuscule possibilities of extending life or regaining health. Unless we so clench our teeth we do not live our lives now as fully as ever we can. :- Doug.

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full life, when?

Posted on December 26, 2014 by dgermann

Ordinary medicine has its eyes on a someday far horizon; hospice on right now. Do you want to live a full life, when? :- Doug.

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Even that

Posted on December 25, 2014 by dgermann

Even that Let go :- Doug.

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How to love in a nursing home?

Posted on December 25, 2014 by dgermann

How to love in a nursing home? How do we bring life to Mom? A good day to Dad? :- Doug.

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Cure, salve, presence:

Posted on December 24, 2014 by dgermann

Cure, salve, presence: what we can do for one another. Any one can heal. :- Doug.

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Choice of what kind of death

Posted on December 23, 2014 by dgermann

We now have the choice of what kind of death we want, although we haven’t yet realized it. This fact that there are few acute diseases anymore, that the trajectory is a long tail, gives us these choices. But we … Continue reading →

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We grow weary

Posted on December 22, 2014 by dgermann

A new picture this morning about the dying process: not so much downhill as uphill: the road grows steeper as we go, and requires more energy, more traction, and we cannot. This seems more hopeful for some reason, more gentle, … Continue reading →

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nuances

Posted on December 22, 2014 by dgermann

Conversation is not in the Yeses and Noes, but also in the nuances of colors. :- Doug.

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How will we know?

Posted on December 21, 2014 by dgermann

How will we know when to stop fighting for time and start meaningful living? :- Doug.

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What level of being alive?

Posted on December 20, 2014 by dgermann

What level of being alive is tolerable to you? What is being alive? :- Doug.

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Talking heals

Posted on December 19, 2014 by dgermann

Talking heals. :- Doug.

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Last words:

Posted on December 18, 2014 by dgermann

Last words: write a few for a favorite comedian or cartoon character. Then write some for yourself. :- Doug.

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some things you have not

Posted on December 17, 2014 by dgermann

I have read some things, thought some things you have not. I can help. :- Doug.

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