Category Archives: Family

We cannot control

We cannot control other beings best we can do is nudge :- Doug.

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We are called to where we are

We are called to where we are We are called to expand this where Also :- Doug.

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our grandchildren

Memories for our grandchildren :- Doug.

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What was that about?

Are you figuring out what your life was about? :- Doug.

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or projects or problems?

In a nursing home are there people or projects or problems? :- Doug.

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To see a bigger picture

To see a bigger picture, sometimes you have to draw away. :- Doug.

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Of one weave with our life’s cloth

Of one weave with our life’s cloth can we make our dying? pass to family, community, and world the worth of our life? :- Doug.

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Our elders deserve our respect

Our elders deserve our respect. Notice that when we age we deal with Loss and Worth, and these tightly bound in tuggle and huggle with one another. :- Doug.

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Trust forms from the Internet seem simple

Trust forms from the Internet seem like just words on paper; moving them around seems like a thing anybody can do. They are as dangerous financially as it would be to download a set of instructions for do it yourself … Continue reading

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Why do I like/not like trusts?

Trust documents are labyrinthine: hard to understand. Wills say give this. In a trust, the house takes two deeds; in probate only one, and sometimes none. In a trust, it takes opening two bank accounts; in probate often two, but … Continue reading

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I do not see an answer

I do not see an answer. What if we become reflective, saw larger? :- Doug.

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Home is approximate

Home is approximate —and moving, growing :- Doug.

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How do we know when to say when?

How do we know when to say when? :- Doug.

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How do you start the conversation?

How do you start the conversation? Know when it’s time? Hard for you? Have an outline? :- Doug.

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Drinking the juice

When you squeeze the juice from conversing, what you get is participation in one another’s lives, plus reflection for going deeper. Still, drinking the juice is not the fruit of the matter. :- Doug.

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To squeeze essence

To squeeze essence out from a fruit is not to have it full only its juice —wet and sweet —without pulp and texture so to say the essence of conversation is reflection and participation is to say something essential and … Continue reading

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To be alive is to participate

To be alive is to participate …in another’s life :- Doug.

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