Monthly Archives: November 2013

Compassion acts

What are the compassionate practices already at work in this place? What is this place? What can it be? Can compassionate community mean something concrete to this place? What specific skills and attitudes lead to compassionate caring for those approaching … Continue reading

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Compassion how?

How might we show compassion for each of the persons we have identified? What might compassion look like, beyond what we are already doing? What are the barriers and things which slow our compassion, and how might we get beyond … Continue reading

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For whom compassion?

For whom do we need to have compassion? The dying, their families, their nurses and doctors? Someone else? Who are our community’s exemplars of compassion? Who are the faces of compassion in our community? Whom should we invite to this … Continue reading

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the story that holds them all

Story comes through conversing. Story uses conversation to weave movement, indeed to weave itself. We meet: we make a story together. The story is us, and the story is you and the story is me. We create each of these … Continue reading

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To get beyond the old conversation:

To get beyond the old conversation, get beyond the old conversation: start a new one. A new conversation, more important, outflanking the troublesome one, overwhelming any interest in the old. Pull us in. Divert to the more significant conversation. :- … Continue reading

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Let’s make conversation

Let’s make conversation conversation rich, textured and opening :- Doug.

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It is a month or two off

It is a month or two off, you know it will be a gentle death, as gradual or short as you like. You have time to get used to the idea, time to gather special people around if you wish, … Continue reading

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Possible links: POST and compassion?

What are the possible links between POST and a compassionate community? :- Doug.

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Where is love in POST?

Where is love in POST? Where is love in Conversation? Where is compassion? :- Doug.

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Looking forward to seeing my grandchildren

Looking forward to seeing my grandchildren this evening, telling stories, playing. Young life! Possibilities and potential! :- Doug.

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Grandchildren: accepting and challenging them

To love your grandchildren is to accept them and to challenge them. One without the other is insipid and unloving. :- Doug.

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Can’t tell you everything about POST

I can’t tell you everything there is to know about POST because everything has yet to be encountered. :- Doug.

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We are ever powerless and powerful at the same instant

We are ever powerless and powerful at the same instant. Powerless to change the past and powerful to create the future. Powerless to change another, powerful to change ourselves. Powerless at 66 to become a professional basketball player, powerful to … Continue reading

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What’s our responsibility for our world?

What’s our responsibility for our world? :- Doug.

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