Category Archives: Family
Walk more?
But if you are to have a livable world we’ll have to. . .give up our comfortable cars, walk more, take cloth bags to the grocery, do more with less, think how we might leave you a better humanity, think … Continue reading
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Reason, kindly
Use reason, kindly. :- Doug.
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Wonderment of dementia?
What is the wonderment of dementia? Of accompanying one with differences (no, I do not write “challenges” which would presume too much)? :- Doug.
Soak up the music
Immerse the grandchild in any environs her essence will soak up the music :- Doug.
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Echoes of kinship
Ancestors call forth echoes of inheritance and kinship. Mutuality in these words. Sustenance. :- Doug.
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Our bigger voice
Our bigger voice let us help one another find :- Doug.
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What story? Why? Who?
What story do you really want to tell? Why do you want to tell that one? Let’s meditate on it, pray on it. Who needs to hear it? Why? :- Doug.
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Promise me you will vote?
Will you promise me you will vote? :- Doug.
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Support counting every vote?
Will you support counting every vote? :- Doug.
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Teller’s epitaph
What’s the story? What’s the theme? What’s the lesson? Will Rogers: “When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: ‘I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never … Continue reading
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Hearing is more than listening
Hearing is more than listening Hearing is the purpose of listening As seeing is the purpose of looking And doing is the purpose of being :- Doug.
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Recipe story
What forms can story take? A recipe, maybe with side notes of where you got it. Recorded oral memories. :- Doug.
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Describe relationship
Describe the relationship you want with your hearers. :- Doug.
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Rise to expectations
People rise to expectations Prime among them you :- Doug.
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Family in fog?
What are the duties of older lawyers —to help a family in fog? :- Doug.
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