Category Archives: Family
We ask the clock
We ask the clock, how much time do I have left till…as if time were sand in a bag with a hole in the bottom. It is hard for us to see time as anything else. But was it always … Continue reading
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Unseen trippable boundaries
The time line of old folks, if it exists at all, might just be with a long past tail, an interminable now, and very short future headlights. If we then, as carefamily, are living in a time line where the … Continue reading
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Rhythms in a nursing home
There are rhythms of life in say a nursing home. The rhythms are like languages where people cannot understand one another. There is the long flowing beat of the older, the staccato of the staff. :- Doug.
Seeing our blindness
We are blind and do not—perhaps cannot—see our blindness. :- Doug.
Opportunities in making a Will
What are your opportunities in making a Will and testament? To get rid of, to pass along wisdom, to connect generations, to proselytize? What are the profane uses, the sacred? :- Doug.
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Just you and me
The world is conversation Just you and me Thee and thou Us and them Him and her Only us and us and us All in here And no out there :- Doug.
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Conversations within conversations
Living beings are conversations within conversations—autonomous but requiring each other. Bacteria within bodies, cells within bacteria, persons within families, wind water sun earth within our planetary system. :- Doug.
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Carefamily?
Caregivers Caretakers Carefamily? :- Doug.
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Not what we talk about
It’s not what we talk about; it’s that we intend to converse, to together. :- Doug.
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Families too easily fall into
Families too easily fall into “you should” mode rather than “that’s profound—beautiful—poignant.” :- Doug.
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complex tissues of relationships
(Old) people are not so much individuals as complex tissues of relationships reaching outward to other relationships, overlapping, combining, weaving. :- Doug.
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