Monthly Archives: July 2014

Passing

Passing on Passing over Or simply passing Namby-pamby our euphemisms We can’t say it Because it would reveal That we missed the mark That we did nothing with this life Least of all lived it In our life we were … Continue reading

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find their creativity

Ask Mom or Dad to make a painting, poem, sculpture; find their creativity. :- Doug.

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with Dad?

What can we create with Dad? :- Doug.

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Song surreptitiously

To invite deeper conversation: Share a song surreptitiously: what were the words to X? :- Doug.

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Deeper conversaion:

To invite deeper conversation: share a reflective song, for example, What a Wonderful World. :- Doug.

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Gathering a family

Gathering a family heart, mind, and can-do around the person most in need of our loving :- Doug.

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Remember me

Remember me with a simile :- Doug.

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Enforced do nothing mode

Just researched a bit about expressive therapy: the use of music, art, and story telling to help folks with dementia have a higher quality life. For me I understand higher quality to mean more woven into life. This study says … Continue reading

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Silence is a massage

Silence is a massage Of brain, heart, and will :- Doug.

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Enjoying the world contributes

Enjoying the world contributes to improving it We take its measure, test its supposed limits :- Doug.

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Teach conversation to lawyers

Teach conversation to lawyers Sacred relationship—the heart of law practice Irreplaceable and interchangeable at once With whom else can we partner? :- Doug.

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What good could come?

What good could come from letting in difference? :- Doug.

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Be strong enough to

Be strong enough to withhold your tongue. :- Doug.

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No roses without thorns

No roses without thorns red’s buds are ephemeral gentian blooms all summer humans bloom for a season pretend to fang and claw do cling to one another by generations a little immortal :- Doug.

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The final frontier?

Death: the final frontier. :- Doug.

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The little beasties are doing this to us

We see the beast in front of us—the Internet—and how it is changing not only our lives but the way we think, even our spirituality.  We meet and count as friends and good people folks from other countries we never … Continue reading

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Just like the rest of us

Love them. They are little children in adult clothes, just like the rest of us. :- Doug.

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