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Monthly Archives: February 2011
If I see my role as healer–
If I see my role as healer—
it means I listen more
I hope it means I hear more
for more is in these hearts
ready to come to voice
from coeur can come spreading
roots, engaging roots,
living roots, desiring more life:
family become whole
—If I encourage these to hear, maybe this
family becomes whole
:- Doug.
Posted in Healing and Wholeness
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What is my work as a lawyer?
What is my work as a lawyer? I am getting the inkling it is about whole-making, about bringing the family of humankind to a larger wholeness, completeness, fullness. It is not about solving problems but about living life.
:- Doug.
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We are not broken
Of course people come to us lawyers with problems, but they do not want to be here. I want to turn the coin over and look at what can we do to make wholeness. Let’s reel in toward wholeness, let’s not fix what’s broken. We are people, we are not broken, we are growing all the time.
:- Doug.
Posted in Eldering, Healing and Wholeness
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The conversation of law
I practice the conversation of law.
:- Doug.
Posted in Conversation
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If meaning in life/is direction of days
If meaning in life
is direction of days
we can be here now
for destination is not assured
but
each now we choose our heading
We think the person with Alzheimer’s
slips away from us sadly
but could he, could she
find meaning in a happy day
wholeness in a happy moment
holding your hand?
:- Doug.
Posted in Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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But no simpler
Make your Estate Planning as simple as possible—but no simpler.
:- Doug.
Posted in Trusts and Trusting, Wills
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Healing in nursing homes
What is healing in the nursing home? What is whole-making for an elder?
:- Doug.
Posted in Eldering, Healing and Wholeness, Long-Term Care
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Explore this mystery
Explore this mystery
at work in families & life:
the wholeness we can bring
by simply hearing one another
:- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Family, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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I work toward family wholeness.
I work toward family wholeness.
:- Doug.
Posted in Family, Healing and Wholeness
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The proper work of this lawyer
It is the proper work of this lawyer to invite people to grow human together. The classic professions were medicine, helping humans with their relationship to their bodies, clergy, helping humans with their relationship to their God, and law, helping humans with their relationship to their fellows. This is the classical work of a lawyer.
:- Doug.
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Who a Will is for:
A Will is first for the Testatrix, second for the beneficiary. The Testatrix needs to have its flexibility: the ability to amend and change as her picture of her family and its future unfolds. A Will is for the living.
:- Doug.
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I help pick up the pieces
I help pick up the pieces
Find a home for the pieces
Where do you want the pieces
Of your life to find homes?
I am your Estate
I’m the salvager
The stitcher and mender
I’m your Estate
:- Doug.
Posted in Estates Administration & Probate, Family, Poetry
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The With-nesses of Long-Term Care:
The With-nesses of Long-Term Care:
Disease partakes of the It
Sickness has me
Illness has us
Still, we can have the Healing
:- Doug.
Posted in Family, Healing and Wholeness, Long-Term Care, Poetry
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