Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness

There may be miracles

Posted on March 20, 2014 by dgermann

There may be miracles, and there are no 1,000-year old humans. :- Doug.

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Alive when you die?

Posted on March 19, 2014 by dgermann

Will you be alive when you die? :- Doug.

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Bringing living

Posted on March 18, 2014 by dgermann

What living can we bring to later years? :- Doug.

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Ways of living the later years

Posted on March 17, 2014 by dgermann

Let’s invent ways of living in the later years. :- Doug.

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Declaring possibility creates it

Posted on March 15, 2014 by dgermann

Declaring possibility creates it. :- Doug.

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Together we….

Posted on March 14, 2014 by dgermann

Together we…. :- Doug.

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Tear times

Posted on March 13, 2014 by dgermann

Tear times, good times. :- Doug.

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What conversations bring Daddy alive?

Posted on March 9, 2014 by dgermann

What conversations bring Daddy alive? :- Doug.

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For whom you love

Posted on March 8, 2014 by dgermann

For whom you love Take responsibility Child for parent Parent for child For love It’s what we do It’s who we are :- Doug.

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Butterflies in the practice of elder caring law?

Posted on March 6, 2014 by dgermann

Butterflies in the practice of elder caring law? Gather the parents, gather the children, find the flowers, do what we can. We ought find and nurture the good stuff, the life we are still living. Together. :- Doug.

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Poetry is to

Posted on February 23, 2014 by dgermann

Poetry is to Endlessly assimilate Endlessly express Person is, too :- Doug.

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Business people sometimes

Posted on February 22, 2014 by dgermann

Business people sometimes As children caring for aging parents Act as if the song Did not need an ending :- Doug.

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If you live to that age….

Posted on February 19, 2014 by dgermann

If you live to that age what do you picture fills your days? :- Doug.

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in the telling Told

Posted on February 18, 2014 by dgermann

How we hold the conversation about living while we’re dying tells about us How we invite the conversation tells about us Where we don’t go The stories we tell The stories we won’t have All these our story in the … Continue reading →

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Que sera, sera?

Posted on February 17, 2014 by dgermann

Why do we have battles with cancer or whatever is going to take us? Why do we insist on fighting our bodies what remains of our living? Did we ever own que sera, sera? :- Doug.

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Why do you want to live?

Posted on February 15, 2014 by dgermann

Why do you want to live? Meaning: For what purpose? With whom? What gives those few days meaning? Their mere number? The people and doings in them? :- Doug.

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knowledge of medicine, tender, tough?

Posted on February 14, 2014 by dgermann

What characteristics would you want in someone making big medical decisions for you: good head, good heart, imagination, knowledge of medicine, tender, tough? :- Doug.

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