Category Archives: Professional Caregivers
Break from social norms and run
Some older folks are able to break from social norms and run for self disclosure and innocence. Like we might do on vacation, talking to strangers. Freedom, humanity. Freedom from pretending, human vulnerability to opening. :- Doug.
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Adult sand boxes
Let’s make adult sand boxes. For nursing homes and senior residences. Waist high like some garden planters. Give us a chance to play and create and discover things. About ourselves. Surely there are other play things elders would like to … Continue reading
We only have us
We have only us We have as much as us :- Doug.
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Thoreau could liver for a year on one
Thoreau could live for a year on one opportunity to be heard; so we. :- Doug.
What is the problem of aging?
What is the problem of aging? Older helps babies, they grow and help the elder in turn. It is a circle. Must we be paid to help or might we do it out of love, or larger still, from our … Continue reading
Round the clock goes
Round the clock goes first toward word maturity then back again toward images and touch becoming master of one’s soul boat then first mate :- Doug.
What if…there really was a disconnecting disease?
What if…there really was a disconnecting disease? It affected us? We turned away from looking at it? Were simply unaware of it? What if…? :- Doug.
waves in the same pool
When we treat one person and not ourselves and that person as part of the fabric, we are pulling apart from the person, we are ripping the fabric, we are working against helping the person. If memory and thinking and … Continue reading
Is my heart at war?
Is my heart at war? A longer view could release The butterfly’s wings :- Doug.
Safety is not the main thing in elder caring:
Safety is not the main thing in elder caring: love is. :- Doug.
“Feeling rushed”
“Feeling rushed” is an example of how one person’s time thoughts are imposed upon another; often the two persons do not translate the same, which might have been intended by the imposer. :- Doug.
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business as unusual
Let’s move toward business as unusual business oriented toward life :- Doug.
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Show your love
Show your love—converse with us! :- Doug.
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Even our caring heart could not escape
Could we get pulled into a black hole of constricted conversation where even our caring heart could not escape? :- Doug.
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Time can be interleaved
Time can be interleaved—or activities and conversations can be interleaved with respect to time. I email you, you email me at another “time”—one conversation. Asynchronously. Polysynchronously. What if their brains do not allow them to respond while we are still … Continue reading
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