Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness

Remind of humanity

We lawyers can remind people in crises of their humanity, from putting one foot in front of another, to asking what matters. :- 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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Anything less?

Is there anything less I can do for you? :- Doug.

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To die freely

Will you die a good death, or will you die freely? Freely is able to be with what comes. :- Doug.

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Dying in her sleep

A client is dying in her sleep. She has been sedated to the point that she will not, cannot, be conscious of her dying. Is that what you meant? Not being able to do the work of dying? :- Doug.

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Makes us less free

Retaliation makes us less free. :- Doug.

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Holds the story

The community of the generations holds the story you blindly help to tell :- Doug.

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In covid time

We have in covid time a season for our minds to lie fallow. :- Doug.

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Its thread starts here

Beyond whether the message ever gets through, there is a study for us to conduct, a message for us to find for us. There is deeper, further. Its thread starts here. Should we find the message, find our coeur, this … Continue reading

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Like every

This moment is whole Like every moment :- Doug.

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Push off in your canoe

Push off in your canoe into waters chasing waters which have already flowed by into waters way out ahead those waters which have yet to fall as rain and are way behind see: the past is ahead the future is … Continue reading

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Allow Meet Welcome

Allow what life might come to you of the life now meeting yours Meet what clues of this life are opened for you Welcome the dying this opening invites you to :- Doug.

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We will again shake hands

These days find: the tender, kind, real part of the ones you meet; open this part in yourself to yourself and them: in our human core, adjectival as we are, we turn one another in an unfinished dance. We will … Continue reading

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Elders maintain or sustain?

Do we our elders maintain? Or sustain? Welcome them us to sustain? :- Doug.

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Turning in your hand

There is no safety Safety is a lie Told as if true Living is mystery Turning in your hand :- Doug.

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Busy pandemic days

In all the busy-ness of these pandemic days I must make time to love and to reflect. These are of the same substance. Yes, I must. :- Doug.

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Stay healthy

Stay healthy. Keep loving. Reflect. :- Doug.

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