Monthly Archives: July 2012
Senior flash mob
http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/west_roxbury/2012/06/video_seniors_flash_mob_west_r.html :- Doug.
Interview your elders
Interview your elders: What is life about? What does it mean to be an elder to your tribe, to do the work of eldering? :- Doug.
Conversation: what matters
Conversation: what matters. :- Doug.
Law is a complex weave
Law is a complex weave of possibilities, risks, costs, feelings, interests, people, and vagaries, among other threads. It is not therefore a vending machine: money in/product out. :- Doug.
Quick! Get me to a TV show!
Quick, get me to a TV show! Since the TV patients who get CPR survive 67% of the time, and those in the hospital only 6.5 to 15%, and the ones on TV recover fully, then if I need CPR, … Continue reading
Replanted in a nursing home
When Mom is pulled up by the roots Replanted in a nursing home We are ripped apart There is a hole in the garden Or we can see the garden wider Extending to the nursing home Fertilized by love What … Continue reading
What of the fragile?
What of the poor, the frail, the fragile? They have no more strength for anything outside themselves: perhaps. But what can they do? What do they do? They can love: they can turn outwards. Turning outward reverses the flow of … Continue reading
See the brother and sister
See the brother and sister from far ends of the country who are dumping their mother in the best nursing home money can buy, easing their consciences by spending her money on her “care,” when she needed their presence. :- … Continue reading
Inviting old age to pour
I invite this old age estuary to pour into the sea, to expand and spread itself. This is a larger picture than devising the meaning of one’s life, of hugging and forgiving and laughing and crying at our death bed. … Continue reading
Love letters to our families
Wills, Trusts, Powers of Attorney, Personal Care Agreements, Living Wills, end of life caring, Long-Term Caring: I help people write love letters to their families. :- Doug.
The challenges and joys of eldering?
What are the challenges and joys of eldering? :- Doug.
What are the questions?
What are the questions we should be asking about elder years to get us where we want to go? :- Doug.