Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness

How can we make end of life fulfilling, healing?

Posted on December 17, 2014 by dgermann

How can we make end of life fulfilling, healing? :- Doug.

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butterfly flies and dies

Posted on December 16, 2014 by dgermann

The butterfly flies and dies falls and disintegrates smaller insects feast and eliminate earth is rejuvenated plants flourish and provide food we eat, we procreate, we die, after the butterfly wheels within wheels death but an arbitrary point life is … Continue reading →

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Do you picture yourself

Posted on December 16, 2014 by dgermann

Do you picture yourself again running a marathon, walking the entire grocery store, babysitting the grandchildren for a week? What is your most realistic recovery? :- Doug.

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Don’t make your doctor your enemy

Posted on December 15, 2014 by dgermann

Don’t make your doctor your enemy—enlist your doctor to do what you want. :- Doug.

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Framework for the end of life conversation:

Posted on December 14, 2014 by dgermann

I have come to some framework for thinking about the end of life conversation: 1. we don’t know when death is approaching; 2. we never anymore reach the point of nothing more we can do; 3. having the conversation reduces … Continue reading →

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No inoculation against death

Posted on December 14, 2014 by dgermann

I cannot offer you an inoculation against death. But I do offer you an inoculation against the avoidable suffering of death. :- Doug.

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What I want for you:

Posted on December 13, 2014 by dgermann

What I want for you: 1. To have the conversation with your family; 2. To have the conversation with your doctor. :- Doug.

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Never get to nothing more we can do

Posted on December 12, 2014 by dgermann

We are faced with a powerful combination—we don’t know when we’re dying; we never get to “nothing more we can do.” So we keep pushing the gas pedal. The brakes are not necessary: can’t we coast gently to rest? :- … Continue reading →

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Why at the end of life do we make poor decisions?

Posted on December 12, 2014 by dgermann

Why at end of life do we make poor decisions? There are several issues interrelated: 1. we don’t anymore know when someone is dying; 2. we want to hang on to life, but we have not thought about what living … Continue reading →

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Alzheimer’s is not a solitary disease

Posted on December 10, 2014 by dgermann

Alzheimer’s is not a solitary disease It is the dis-ease of being made solitary :- Doug.

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Love is not

Posted on December 10, 2014 by dgermann

Love is not What we think It is :- Doug.

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Memory may be stored between the cells

Posted on December 7, 2014 by dgermann

Memory may be stored in the betweens of cells, the neighborhoods of the cells, the dendrites. There are more than a few connections made by each cell. If one cell dies, then do our memories run up a road ending … Continue reading →

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Let’s not steal from someone their death

Posted on December 6, 2014 by dgermann

Let’s not steal from someone their death. :- Doug.

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People are dying

Posted on December 5, 2014 by dgermann

People are dying Far from gently Far from home We can make it better We can bring them home :- Doug.

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Grabbery

Posted on November 23, 2014 by dgermann

There be more in the human heart Than grabbery And pushing away: There resides deep and seldom admitted The need—the need— For justice For others For binding of wounds For being heard For coming closer together For coming closer to … Continue reading →

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Doors not walls

Posted on November 22, 2014 by dgermann

Hate and conflict too are doorways to mutual understanding: doors, not walls. :- Doug.

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What we care enough to fight over

Posted on November 21, 2014 by dgermann

Perhaps we do not have to examine our opinions and ideologies—our differences—so much as what we care about enough to fight over—our commons. Either way in to the circle ought to work, and maybe there are other doors. :- Doug.

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