Monthly Archives: May 2014
Walk lost
This is the deeper level of practicing law with this one walk lost :- Doug.
You are my heart-work
You are my heart-work. :- Doug.
You my parents and grandparents
A thread of life there runs from you my parents and grandparents back through eons of eons through me to you my children and grandchildren on forward eons of eons it counts for us as immortality ’tis up to me … Continue reading
When I’m 95
In every way that matters When I’m 95 When you’re 95 We will see In every way that matters We are just like each other Let’s start now :- Doug.
Conversation is not words
Conversation is not words rather an exchange of being poetry flowing :- Doug.
This circus belongs
This circus belongs to us clowns and elephants greasepaint and canvas laughter and applaudable unreality this much is real: you belong to me, I to you and the whole world one belongs to us :- Doug.
Among us
Among us wholeness moves Totally present Absolutely invisible :- Doug.
open me
My silence can open me to nuances of you :- Doug.
Pieces of our own lives
We pay for the care we give our loved ones with pieces of our own lives. :- Doug.
The family responsibility question
The family responsibility question (shall the law force daughter and son to pay for their parents’ nursing home?) really points up the fact that the kind of care we get is a commercial transaction, and one of choices we make. … Continue reading
Nursing homes: keeping your spouse out of poverty
We have some things that might help keep the spouse at home out of poverty, while giving the one in the nursing home the care the family wants, extending it as long as they choose. But notice there is a … Continue reading
Last night this question wrestled with me:
Last night this question wrestled with me: how do we care for people, do we really need so much nursing home, are we trying to hold back the sea with our hands? In different words, when do we let go, … Continue reading
Picking your path
How will you pick your path through these woods? :- Doug.
The crisis can be good
The crisis can be good. The crisis in health care of which we are only now catching contours—the slashed budgets, the cost containments—can be good. Someone might (unexpectedly—really?) ask, What are we actually about? Is the only way through, more … Continue reading
Doctor, must I take that pill?
Doctor, must I take that pill? :- Doug.
Why can’t we
Why can’t we take care of our elders the way we used to? Is it mistreating if we can’t afford our pills and so go without? Does one choice hasten death, or does the other stretch out our deaths? What … Continue reading
Sometimes the professional
Sometimes the role of the professional is to turn his or her economic gains to losses for the sake of the person in his or her care. :- Doug.