Monthly Archives: June 2015
With us, lost
With us, lost :- Doug.
scary to think
It’s scary to think getting lost is the way worse to have someone tell us even more to have them take us by the hand :- Doug.
losing my way
Maybe I should display the wonder in losing my way. :- Doug
feared the first day of school
Dementia might house wisdom even further growth some of us feared that first day of school :- Doug.
It’s not niceness
Care is a financial transaction Caring is compassion Fellow-being (not feeling) It’s not niceness It’s getting to real :- Doug.
forgetting what I planned to say
Our strength is in our weaknesses so mine might be in lost words forgetting what I planned to say in midst not beyond :- Doug.
Listen with eyes closed
Listen with eyes closed Hear underneath words to melodies Larger plumbs us :- Doug.
Alzheimer’s does not have to be dis-ease
Alzheimer’s does not have to be a dis-ease. What if it were a going further? What if the plaques and tangles were growth of the person? What if we are so blind that years from now people will shake their … Continue reading
truly patient
Says the Alzheimer’s truly patient with Rumi There is a field out beyond knowing I’ll take you there We are frightened this one is not :- Doug.
If to be alive has value
If to be alive has value to experience to see your mortality then a person of accumulating years and loosening mind is worthy for us to engage :- Doug.
loosed of her mind
Where can the person by Alzheimer’s loosed of her mind take us if we let loose of our needs? Is there some place more profound than we know? :- Doug.
beyond competence
I am moving beyond competence. :- Doug.
I’m old, growing
I’m old, growing. :- Doug.
an old friend
It’s not unsafe to acknowledge a stranger across the room as an old friend. :- Doug.
Do you ever get
When you peel and peel Do you for ever get Onion? :- Doug.
Hope usually limits?
Hope usually limits Almost as much as despair? :- Doug.
Alzheimer’s Development?
May we call it Alzheimer’s Development? :- Doug.