Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness
Safety is a sales pitch
Safety is a sales pitch to adult children. :- Doug.
Crying at a birth
We should cry at the birth of a baby, because this one now has a terminal condition: life. But we do not, and we do well, because of possibilities in the great shared illness. :- Doug.
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A world simpler than it is
We all want a world simpler than it is: less capable of being bollixed by good intentioned things we do day to day. The mature response is to attend, to learn, to accept, and then to act. :- Doug.
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Why we converse
We converse because we want to change our pictures of the world—or confirm them. :- Doug.
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When I became
Now I see when I became an elder. In Portland, Oregon on about January 30, 2004, I consciously turned the corner—decided on service. :- Doug.
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In limitation, possibility
In limitation, possibility. :- Doug.
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Continual growth
See: your life may have been a road of continual growth. :- Doug.
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A visible watershed
Elders can be for the future a visible watershed. :- Doug.
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Incomplete tasks?
An elder asks, What are my incomplete tasks? :- Doug.
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Whole-giving
Let us converse—whole-giving. :- Doug.
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Life creating conversation
Finding your voice means having a life creating conversation with the world. :- Doug.
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As they wheel by
It goes This life We snatch morsels Catch sunsets As they wheel by :- Doug.
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You who work in nursing homes:
You who work in nursing homes: You work with people (I hope) Do you see more deficits or more worth? :- Doug.
Swimming the sky
There is a beauty to this blue; I am swimming the sky. :- Doug.
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Cut you to the bone?
What question for you would cut to the bone? :- Doug.
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After accomplishment?
After accomplishment, real? :- Doug.
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