Monthly Archives: October 2011

Not old enough to be 65!

I’m not old enough to be 65—nor do I intend to be. :- Doug.

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Video: Consider the Conversation

  This is a wonderful video excerpts from which I have shown to Boomer Bootcamp audiences. It is about end of life decisions–everything from CPR to compassionate care in our final days and hours. My wife and I also watched … Continue reading

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Would you like a way?

Would you like to have a way to get your family talking about emergency medical decisions? :- Doug.

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Is conversation important to your family?

Is conversation important to your family? What conversation would be especially important? :- Doug.

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Your heart is ripped in two

Dead! Just like that! Your heart is ripped in two this wound never heals somehow from your dwindling blood comes a larger completeness of you compassion for others in varied pains from brokenness, wholeness :- Doug.

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CPR and violence

If you’re about non-violence, where are you on the question of CPR? :- Doug.  

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It’s an emergency:

It’s an emergency: A nursing home administrator calls. The husband of a resident is demanding to take his wife home. The problem is that she needs 24-hour supervision because of her dementia. The problem is that the husband is soon … Continue reading

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Stitching people together

Story is how we stitch people together. :- Doug. Story is how we

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Honor your eldering insights

Honor your eldering insights—Write them down! Share them! Open a window: let them fly in, let them fly out! :- Doug.

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Bringing heart to law

In our times, we are bringing heart to law. :- Doug.

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Feeling old is optional

Feeling old is optional for you, elder of fuller life :- Doug.

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Before you write your Will…

Before you write your Will Write a poem To each person in it Your poem will open to you Story and heart, Family and hearth, The generations :- Doug.

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The world turns on conversation

The world turns on conversation. :- Doug.

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