Monthly Archives: June 2013
A couple faces Alzheimer’s: enjoying
I was thinking of a particular couple and one has Alzheimer’s. They probably sometimes think their future is bleak. Then this came to me: Don’t enjoy the future: enjoy the present. :- Doug.
We owe our communities, our families
This is something we owe our communities, our families: to have this end of life conversation, to converse. For here is caring, here is loving, here is coming together. :- Doug.
Resources? A well-spring
Required for any task, ever in us flowing Hearts and minds Resources? A well-spring have we! :- Doug.
I have been talking too much
I have been talking too much and need to reflect, hear, wait, experience the pregnant silence. :- Doug.
choosing to gather in their sparks
the meeting of highways of life, love & meaning, of daughters & sons wives & husbands mothers & fathers of inviting & freeing & gathering this conversation is —it only takes a little seeing of who is there in front … Continue reading
You can too
You can too Create a story with a child Give a flower to a business leader Tell us today’s story of Jean Valjean Help our many lights shine You can too :- Doug.
I don’t care whether we use probate….
I don’t care whether we use probate or some other tool: let’s just get the job done. :- Doug.
We can always be more whole
We can always be more happy, and that means more whole. And more sad, and more grieved, and more involved with one another. All this too means more whole. :- Doug.
It cuts deeply, to heal
Conversing is a sword’s edge, Excalibur. It cuts deeply, to heal. :- Doug.
In each life we owe it to ourselves to meet this way once
We cannot radically converse all the time: it would be too much for us. But in each life we ought to meet this way once. :- Doug.
Cancer and gentle loving metaphors
There are more gentle and loving frames within which to set our approach to any cancer test results seeming negative. Military and war metaphors, fighting and vanquishing, are too harsh for a part of a loved one’s body. When our … Continue reading
Let us be gentle with one another
We’re all in this life together—let us be gentle with one another. :- Doug.
Four meanings of your life?
What is one meaning of your life? A second meaning—a moral one? A third one—an allegorical? And a fourth—an anagogical? :- Doug.
The profession of people meeting well:
In the profession of people meeting well: I am exactly where I need to be. :- Doug.