I was thinking of a particular couple and one has Alzheimer’s. They probably sometimes think their future is bleak. Then this came to me: Don’t enjoy the future: enjoy the present. :- Doug.

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We owe our communities, our families

Posted on June 29, 2013 by dgermann

This is something we owe our communities, our families: to have this end of life conversation, to converse. For here is caring, here is loving, here is coming together. :- Doug.

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Resources? A well-spring

Posted on June 28, 2013 by dgermann

Required for any task, ever in us flowing Hearts and minds Resources? A well-spring have we! :- Doug.

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I have been talking too much

Posted on June 27, 2013 by dgermann

I have been talking too much and need to reflect, hear, wait, experience the pregnant silence. :- Doug.

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choosing to gather in their sparks

Posted on June 26, 2013 by dgermann

the meeting of highways of life, love & meaning, of daughters & sons wives & husbands mothers & fathers of inviting & freeing & gathering this conversation is —it only takes a little seeing of who is there in front … Continue reading →

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We can always be more whole

Posted on June 23, 2013 by dgermann

We can always be more happy, and that means more whole. And more sad, and more grieved, and more involved with one another. All this too means more whole. :- Doug.

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It cuts deeply, to heal

Posted on June 21, 2013 by dgermann

Conversing is a sword’s edge, Excalibur. It cuts deeply, to heal. :- Doug.

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Radical conversing heals

Posted on June 19, 2013 by dgermann

End of life conversing is vitally important to me because radical conversing heals. Because radical hearing heals. :- Doug.

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A work of parent and child, and of lovers

Posted on June 18, 2013 by dgermann

The end of life conversation is a work, a work of parent and child, of lovers. It is a work of life, of a lifetime, of art. It is bringing us together, and in this is my higher work, and … Continue reading →

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Cancer and gentle loving metaphors

Posted on June 17, 2013 by dgermann

There are more gentle and loving frames within which to set our approach to any cancer test results seeming negative. Military and war metaphors, fighting and vanquishing, are too harsh for a part of a loved one’s body. When our … Continue reading →

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Four meanings of your life?

Posted on June 15, 2013 by dgermann

What is one meaning of your life? A second meaning—a moral one? A third one—an allegorical? And a fourth—an anagogical? :- Doug.

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The profession of people meeting well:

Posted on June 14, 2013 by dgermann

In the profession of people meeting well: I am exactly where I need to be. :- Doug.

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Completing our living is peeling an onion:

Posted on June 13, 2013 by dgermann

Completing our living is peeling an onion: First we complete our work in the world, then our relationships with community, then with friends. The final layer is our relation with closest of family and here we seek to complete intimacy. … Continue reading →

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