Monthly Archives: September 2012

The higher work of the lawyer

The higher work of the lawyer is whole-making I’m a whole-maker So are You Let us see how this is so :- Doug.

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With a waiting….

Maybe you want to punctuate your conversations with a waiting…an opening of space for a larger meeting. :- Doug.

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Conversation has these aspects:

Conversation has these aspects: a. Communicate info b. Communicate fellow feeling c. Thinking d. Risk contributing e. Risk something happening to us f. Inventing a between g. Inventing each of us h. Special claim upon each other i. Essences touch … Continue reading

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Both seed and soil

Exchange conversation is, a barter, only you each keep what you brought and add the other’s, and if grace smiles, a child of these. :- Doug.

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Exchange it is

Exchange conversation is, a barter, only you each keep what you brought and add the other’s, and if grace smiles, a child of these. :- Doug.

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And still we are not done

We germinate, we leaf, we vine, we flower! We set little green fruit, we grow round, we grow fat, we grow green and then red! We fall to the ground, spent, or we are food! And still we are not … Continue reading

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In conversation we risk

In conversation we risk contributing, risk something happening to us. :- Doug.

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Can we allow each other a Friendly death?

Can we allow each other a Friendly death? :- Doug.

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Many thoughts

There are many thoughts in this world & I would have us together Converse our way to the deeper :- Doug.

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The claim our dying have on us

This right to be heard is a special claim our dying have on us. Do we have a special claim on them? :- Doug.

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A right to be heard by our families?

Do we have a right to be heard by our families about end of life? By ourselves? Do we have a right—a freedom—to live as we wish up to our last breath? What is the lawyer’s role in this? :- … Continue reading

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This world of family is unreliable and perilous

This world of family is unreliable and perilous. We cannot find a path to it that works every time (only one out of it). Moreover we cannot guarantee ourselves positive outcomes in every meeting. Not even reality. We only know … Continue reading

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Family conversation starts with….

Family conversation starts with a choice of observation point: relation or separation, presence or memory, one among or difference, real persons to meet or others to control. :- Doug.

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How would we recognize family if we saw it?

How would we recognize family when we saw it? What gets in the way of it? What makes ready for it? For we can only ever really make ready. Make ourselves ready, open the space, invite. But grace is ever … Continue reading

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Ban “Do Everything”

Friends– A thoughtful piece, worth acting upon. When you want to tell the doctor to “Do everything,” remember that the phrase is meaningless, and perhaps worse…. http://www.geripal.org/2012/09/ban-phrase-do-everything-its-dangerous.html :- Doug.

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We get to family by working on the thread between

Sharing of selves happens by giving without trying to take to myself. We share being that belongs not solely to either of us. We get to family by working on the thread between and among us. The subject can be … Continue reading

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Granny Suites?

Friends– Know any builder who’d like to offer these here? http://www.startribune.com/business/169047386.html :- Doug.

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