Do I have war in my heart? This explains why I feel a fight in meetings. We probably all have this heart-war. So I must go further than controlling my silence; I must teach peace. Which may mean to teach hearing one another.
:- Doug.
You can be in control without controlling
Choose to give others their heads
Your heart holds back your hand
:- Doug.
We have a quiet little law practice in elder caring: we provide powers of assistance, get court permission for you to act for your loved one, and find you help to pay for home and nursing care.
:- Doug.
Brain choices: A few hints that our brain is not functioning as before, and we worry these are signs of our impending dementia; each example gets us buying the notion we are slipping; we become depressed and don’t tell anyone; we become lazy and let others do for us; we write in terms of we and not I.
Or.
We can knead our brain, roll, stretch, move, shape, pat, and play with it, fitting it into new tasks and roles; encourage it to grow; store words and activities in new areas; prove its plasticity; allow the old to be fresh.
:- Doug.
Safety is not the main thing in elder caring: love is.
:- Doug.
Does service to others foreclose your own optimized life course? Or, is it your optimized life course?
:- Doug.
I am part of that part of the conversation emerging into consciousness.
:- Doug.
Conversation goes beyond empathy for another to explore for the chance to meet, to know one another. Each extends each others’ selves.
:- Doug.
I try to be conscious that it’s not I, Douglas Germann, working to nourish the conversation, but I as part of the conversation nurturing itself.
:- Doug.
Maybe we should not ask how we prepare the next generation for the new world coming: rather ask how we let them prepare us.
:- Doug.
How could we possibly see relationships and conversations as property? We breathe the air and recycle it back to the trees, they to us. We are in relationship to the trees. Our food a circle with sun, air, water, death, decay, growing, flowering: a conversation.
:- Doug.
We all who see the images on the news, are seeing ourselves. The future is in seeing, hearing. The hope is in seeing, hearing, reacting. Humanly.
:- Doug.
In the early 21st century we are discovering about 1.6 meters from the surface of the planet a nervous system. This nervous system shows us that we are more alike than different, that we are connected to one another, northern, southern, black, white, brown, red, yellow, old, young, heart and rhythm, scarlet of blood and flash of eyes.
:- Doug.
The issues for me revolve around birthing and touching, interweaving and opening. How do we open windows, doors, and skylights among us? How do we engender, quicken a more inclusive world? Who are the people who care about this, who see the wider?
:- Doug.
Words and concepts of my hope: inclusion, access, open, transparent, lateral, peer-to-peer, sharing, clear, urbane, responsible, participative, engender, touch, converse.
:- Doug.
A hope in things we have seen: distribution of conversation, flattening of the conversation, democratization. The Internet has brought about a change in how we think, how we interact. If, and it may be a big if, we can do the same in the power grid, if we can create power on our own homesteads, there is hope that the world can become even more distributed, flat, democratic.
:- Doug.
Engaging people is the task. Make an effort and find what works for me. Figuring it out ahead of time does not seem to be working: I try something, and it does not get me 100% to a deep conversation, and so I stop, feel like it is all a difficult task. Well, it is difficult. Every interaction is different, and so it takes being there.
:- Doug.
The top of the hill must be quite narrow: years you climb and climb, then suddenly you find yourself on the downhill.
:- Doug.
What’s invisible to you? (To me it is sports and popular singers and personalities.) What’s most visible to you?
:- Doug.
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