Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness

When you are dying….

Posted on April 17, 2013 by dgermann

When you are dying what is the work you are doing? :- Doug.

The Work and the Words of Dying?

Posted on April 16, 2013 by dgermann

What are The Work and Words of Dying? :- Doug.

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The work of peace

Posted on April 14, 2013 by dgermann

How might we take the work of peace in death to our society, a society that thinks death is a failure? :- Doug.

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For cure or for care?

Posted on April 13, 2013 by dgermann

If you are terminally ill do you want to be treated for cure or for care? :- Doug.

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The uncommonly good

Posted on April 12, 2013 by dgermann

Let’s look among us for the uncommonly good. :- Doug.

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When is death?

Posted on April 11, 2013 by dgermann

When is death when a loved one has dementia? When the personality disappears? How much of it? When the body disappears? :- Doug.

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Who’s doing it well?

Posted on April 10, 2013 by dgermann

Who’s doing it well? Follow that one. :- Doug.

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Make room

Posted on April 9, 2013 by dgermann

Help families make room for a good death. :- Doug.

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Let us be sharing stories

Posted on April 8, 2013 by dgermann

Let us be sharing stories of people dying well. :- Doug.

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Who and what practices allow people to die well?

Posted on April 7, 2013 by dgermann

Who and what practices allow people to die well? :- Doug.

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Loving them as they die?

Posted on April 6, 2013 by dgermann

How then shall we live as we die? How then shall we love them as they die? :- Doug.

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No guarantees: only curiosity

Posted on April 4, 2013 by dgermann

No guarantees: only curiosity. :- Doug.

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Weaving paths through the woods

Posted on March 21, 2013 by dgermann

Our job as lawyers is to weave a path through the woods. There will always be woods, and there will always be paths needing weaving. :- Doug.

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Nelson Mandela started his biggest conversation, the one that ended Apartheid, while in solitary confinement. What conversation can we start, given our life condition? What higher purpose do we own that will get us beyond our walls? :- Doug.

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Our dog begs from us play

Posted on March 15, 2013 by dgermann

Our dog begs from us food and play and a walk, showing joy in being with us. Asking, playing: a way we too can give. :- Doug.

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Here might be our highest value

Posted on March 14, 2013 by dgermann

When our eyes meet— When our ears meet— Passes between us humanity & here might be our highest value :- Doug.

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asking for a bit of you

Posted on March 13, 2013 by dgermann

In conversation I am giving myself away asking for a bit of you leaving you free to make the gift. :- Doug.

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