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Other useful sites
- A. Home Health Care Compare
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- B. Indiana Medicaid explained
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- MA: HHS CMS State Medicaid Manuals
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Monthly Archives: December 2016
first snows
This first snow like all first snows, returning, sticking enspirited me :- Doug.
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Poetry is a way
Poetry is a way of not facing in order to face :- Doug.
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family gathers
When someone is ill in hospital, family gathers. Do we feel there is healing in bringing close all these centers, loci? :- Doug.
calculate some things, map others
We cannot mathematically calculate a life’s meaning; we can map it. Perhaps when we have plotted the points we will discover a stream running through, or a spiral. Or a constellation. :- Doug.
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Clearer about that dark wood
Eldering is getting clearer about that dark wood, about finally doing the thing. :- Doug.
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stories work
We tell ourselves stories To chase away our fear of the dark Because fear is turned imagination We’re afraid of the light too Stories work there :- Doug.
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What are you doing beyond the thing?
When you are doing what engages you essence and soul, what are you doing beyond the thing? The musician is touching the chords of the cosmos’ love for her and hers for the all; the lawyer is helping the justice … Continue reading
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Elders are guardians
Elders are guardians. You must find of what and whom. :- Doug.
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seeing our living
What have we learned in living? For that we need to labor at seeing our living. What do you sense as your ultimate place in the world? Where are the places we look for place? :- Doug.
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“They call me The Peacemaker,” she said
“They call me The Peacemaker,” she said, owning the title. What do others call you? What title would you own, had you the courage to name it? :- Doug.
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Too old for organ donation? Think again
Here is an article from a medical journal saying that kidney donations from those in their 80s “and older” function as well as from a 50-year old. http://www.physiciansbriefing.com/Article.asp?AID=717883 Think about this: could you help? :- Doug.
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Eldering’s felt change
Eldering is primarily about soul-centric development in elders, in society. It is about a felt change—that is, a step larger—of consciousness. :- Doug.
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things of which I am unaware
It has been important for me to take in more and more possibilities—to allow others’ truths in—to see things of which I was unaware. This part of my eldering. :- Doug.
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a coherent thread
What can we find to call forth from our lives a coherent thread, a wholeness, a story line? :- Doug.
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larger than middlers see
What do we see larger than middlers see? :- Doug.
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