Category Archives: Professional Caregivers
the most luscious
Consider you may be rousing someone from the most luscious dream. :- Doug.
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all at once Mozart
Kairos time can be all at once, Mozart experiencing his symphonies. :- Doug.
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Our corporate goals are a screen
Our corporate goals and numbers are a screen through which we see and obscure the world. Our loving is the wind and water that flows through. Chronos screens, Kairos flows. Different dimensions. :- Doug.
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How long is an interlude?
How long is an interlude? For as long as when half Is whole :- Doug.
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The glance
One profundity of Kairos might be the glance—a meeting in the eyes. A second might be silence—a briefest break in time and rhythm. Knowing is a third—that it is there and being willing, curious, and respectful enough to wait. :- … Continue reading
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You can practice your deepest art
Zen’s word “ma” is the meaningful interval or space in time. Silence perhaps. Silence shouts the unsounded. Here is where you can practice your deepest art. :- Doug.
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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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We of the young and old
We of the young look for the bottom line of the old person, our managers see only their form. We of the old have gone, some of us, beyond to formless, bottomless. This can confuse those of us still young. … Continue reading
Surreptitious time
Kairos is surreptitious time. :- Doug.
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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.
Old are not merely young
Old are not merely young with more years. :- Doug.
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Carefamily?
Caregivers Caretakers Carefamily? :- Doug.
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to ask of us
We’re still living—life has something to offer us and to ask of us. :- Doug.
Conversing with time itself
All’s a conversation: one with others, birds with wind, horses with flies, cedars with snows, you with me. Making clock time for the conversation is impossible: it is designed to be fixed spaces that tick away without mercy. Kairos time … Continue reading
Dangerous
Chronos is about business: Dollars and Numbers. Kairos is about life: its beauty, its goodness, its truth—that life matters. Nurturing matters. Mattering can happen in an instant. Kairos also takes the time it takes: it comes in the form of … Continue reading
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