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- Being present 300 years
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- The tracks we make
- A message
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- Only after do we become conscious
- A question, a story, a poem
- Can a grandchild not make poetry?
- it looks quiet
- Intentionally invisible poem
- When a poem resists
- accuses you
- Write! Your responsibility
- No right to withhold
- Triggering’s the thing
Other useful sites
- A. Home Health Care Compare
- A. Nursing Home Compare, Federal
- A. Nursing Home Report Cards, Indiana (slow loading)
- A. Nursing Homes Deficiency Reports (might run slowly in Internet Explorer)
- A. People Medicare excludes from providing care
- B. Indiana Medicaid explained
- C. VA Aid & Attendance FAQs
- D.1. Making Health Care Decisions for Someone Else
- D.2. Managing someone else's money
- D.3. Eldercare Locator (Health and Human Services dept of US gov't)
- E. SHIP: State Health Insurance Program
- F. Cost of Care study: Nursing Homes, Assisted Living, Home Care Providers
- H. Elders' Bills of Rights (Please add any you find to be caring.)
- I. Plan Your Lifespan
- MA: HHS CMS State Medicaid Manuals
- MA: Indiana's FSSA IHCPPM Manual
- SSA POMS
- VA e-Vets Advisor
- VA Home Based Primary Care
- VA WARMS
- Veterans: unsuitable annuities
- Video: Consider the Conversation
- Video: Indiana Adult Guardianship
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Monthly Archives: September 2011
Now can we
All our lives preparing our homework for jobs for weddings for parenthood for a new career for company for dinner but now we are 60 or 70 or 80 but now is it finally Now now can we live now … Continue reading
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I’m turning red! I’m turning orange!
I’m turning red! I’m turning orange! Fire now I have, the brightness of my life Is now revealed, and in the wind I will dance! Dance with me! Shouted the leaf, and the whole tree Came alive with color! Soon … Continue reading
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Before you visit your lawyer for your Will
Before you visit your lawyer for your Will, visit your journaling pad. Complete this sentence: My daughter, my son, I want for you…. :- Doug.
Posted in Dreams, Family, Wills
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The flame alive
The flame alive atop the candle our elder years are :- Doug.
Posted in Eldering, Poetry
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Elder, at the pinnacle
Elder, at the pinnacle of adult knowing, you are called to jump into these wider openings you now can see so to grow us by community :- Doug.
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Grandparent to grandchild questions
Grandparent to grandchild questions: —What do you think the birds see when they look down at us? —What do the trees see? —What does your angel think about you? :- Doug.
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Shh. Yes, you are fragile
Shh. Yes, you are fragile No, that is not all right But you are as all of us & together & alone We get to where we can Share this fragility There is strength here too Among us :- Doug.
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What does it mean to do eldering?
What does it mean to do eldering? :- Doug.
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business success can turn us
Our wanting can block & blur our richer selves business success can turn us from filling a world need to buying a new convertible a beautiful spouse & big parties with important people can keep us from seeing this little … Continue reading
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Quotation: the cords between people
Especially in this time of managed care, more emphasis seems to be placed upon medication and the quick amelioration of symptoms, short-term work and privatized, profit-making clinics, than upon the lovely and mysterious alchemy that comprises the cords between people, … Continue reading
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Quotation: breaking heart
It’s better for the heart to break than not to break. Mary Oliver
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Quotation: grief
I don’t have much knowledge yet in grief– so this massive darkness makes me small. You be the master: make yourself fierce, break in: then your great transforming will happen to me, and my great grief cry will happen to … Continue reading
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What questions?
What questions do you need to ask each other? What do you need to say? :- Doug.
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Write poetry
Write poetry—just to tell your truth. :- Doug.
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Of heart & mind
Of heart & mind, caring is rather than commercial transaction :- Doug.
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Legal health
I work toward the legal health—that is, wholeness—of my client community. :- Doug.
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