Category Archives: Grieving

human wellspring

Attend the suffering of others a human wellspring :- Doug.

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we find our stuff

Just here, in tragedy, we find our stuff. Just here, in our joy and their need. :- Doug.

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A water we cannot see across

A water we cannot see across Of this we stand in need A brink we must visit and visit :- Doug.

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Hardest there is

This requires thinking—the hardest work there is. :- Doug.

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Crisis changed family

This crisis has changed your family. In what ways would you like it to change you as a family and personally? :- Doug.

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Whom they will be

Families become whom they will be after Dad is in the nursing home, and dies. :- Doug.

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Medical less important?

What ought your dying look like? What if the medical issues were not the most important thing? :- Doug.

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Asks of us

Living asks of us Dying asks of us Grieving asks of us :- Doug.

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Get over answers

Get over needing an answer. :- Doug.

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Mourning brings

Mourning brings us together. :- Doug.

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Diminishes frees lays

Every death diminishes me perhaps frees me and others lays on me responsibility :- Doug.

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Before they died

People die and the world changes and probably changed before they did :- Doug.

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Can we cure grief?

We are not about curing grief. Can we cure grief? We are not about getting beyond grief. We are about growing, even when we do not want to grow, about living even when we do not want to live. :- … Continue reading

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How to die?

How to die? How to respond to dementia, Friend? :- Doug.

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Profound this area of law

Profound is the area of law I get to work in, dealing with life, death, nursing homes, grandchildren. :- Doug.

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Not wrong

People who are dying are not wrong. :- Doug.

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An heir

An heir is one bereaved, torn away, emptied, released. :- Doug.

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