Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness

A double blind spot

Posted on March 11, 2013 by dgermann

Here is a double blind spot we have in end of life care: we ask each other what our goals are. Double blind because first we assume that we know what end we want to experience; and second we do … Continue reading →

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Everyone dies.

Posted on March 10, 2013 by dgermann

Everyone dies. This we cannot cure. So then how are we to treat us? :- Doug.

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What treatment as we die?

Posted on March 4, 2013 by dgermann

Everyone dies. What sort of treatment are we entitled to as we die? Could this become the standard for all treatment of others? :- Doug.

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Three stages of health in our later years

Posted on March 3, 2013 by dgermann

There are three stages of our health in later years: Healthful years with few big issues; Years when bigger things start narrowing our possible issues; Frail times when we are in decline. Lawyers can help folks think generally and without … Continue reading →

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Knowing the name of our disease

Posted on February 28, 2013 by dgermann

We create our world out of language. Once we put a word to something, we have lifted up this something from the background, given it color and edges. This is why we are desperate to know the name of our … Continue reading →

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We face what life brings us

Posted on February 22, 2013 by dgermann

We face what life brings us as it brings us together; we are new every moment and are able to create and mold life every moment. And there is only one life. :- Doug.

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We lawyers need to think about:

Posted on February 21, 2013 by dgermann

As lawyers, and especially together as lawyers, we need to think about what matters to our clients and their families. We cannot heal an individual in isolation: and make no mistake—we are healers: whole-makers. Our clients are pulling together the … Continue reading →

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Trouble

Posted on February 20, 2013 by dgermann

Anticipation of trouble is more trouble than the trouble itself We’ll face what comes when it gets here :- Doug.

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I am responsible

Posted on February 19, 2013 by dgermann

I am responsible though I do not control I can create that which I will not direct Community, relatedness, us This is ever the way Love demands responsibility and starting Looks not to results Bringing a new life into the … Continue reading →

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Birth & death ultimacies

Posted on February 19, 2013 by dgermann

Birth & death —our ultimate times— we can glimpse ultimacy glimpse is all we need to dissolve our other-wiseness :- Doug.

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I don’t have the answers

Posted on February 18, 2013 by dgermann

I don’t have the answers, but we together have better questions. :- Doug.

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I work on the spiritual end of life

Posted on February 17, 2013 by dgermann

I work on the spiritual end of life. :- Doug.

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Listen for the tune not the notes

Posted on February 16, 2013 by dgermann

Listen for the tune not the notes. Hear the story not the things to note. :- Doug.

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When I get older….

Posted on February 15, 2013 by dgermann

I think if I were older and unable to move around much, I would want to meet with a spiritual director and probably artists to work on my creativity and open my spirit. :- Doug.

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A good way to die: When is love appropriate?

Posted on February 14, 2013 by dgermann

There is a big difference between working to end life and allowing life and death to take its course without fighting it interminably and pigheadedly. People must be allowed to die their own ways, whether violently and with invasive and … Continue reading →

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Do we care well in our farewells?

Posted on February 13, 2013 by dgermann

Do we care well in our farewells? :- Doug.

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Not often imparting new knowledge

Posted on February 12, 2013 by dgermann

I’m not often imparting new knowledge. Often I am calling attention to something we all can observe or act upon but usually miss. :- Doug.

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