Monthly Archives: November 2014
Imagination strangled out of everyone touching nursing homes
Imagination has been so strangled out of everyone in or touching nursing homes that the blood flow is restricted all the way to the head. :- Doug.
To have a chance of staying out of a nursing home:
To have a chance at staying out of a nursing home: have at least one daughter. :- Doug.
The nursing home, like war
The nursing home, like war, is a failure of imagination. For surely nursing homes as presently constituted are a war upon life, dignity, worth, and our parents and husbands and wives. :- Doug.
Before it becomes our turn,
Before it becomes our turn, let’s fix nursing homes. :- Doug.
We are people taking care of people
We are people taking care of people. :- Doug.
Families facing nursing homes:
Families facing nursing homes: we might be of help. :- Doug.
Providing “care” for our elders
Our way of providing “care” for our elders stems from the culture we have cultivated—rugged individualism has grown up to become everybody rely on no one else, buy everything we need—right down to someone to change our diapers. :- Doug.
life after nursing home
There can be life after nursing home. :- Doug.
Nursing homes can be approached without fear
Nursing homes can be approached without fear. :- Doug.
Youth and elders share a common wisdom:
Youth and elders Share a common wisdom: Discretion can prevent The good we could do :- Doug.
work is conversation
My work is conversation Conversation is love Much of my conversation revolves around nursing homes :- Doug.
leaf trying to hold on
Describing conversation is like a leaf trying to hold on to the wind. :- Doug.
love your families
I’m not out to compete with others— I’m here to help my clients love their families :- Doug.
Grabbery
There be more in the human heart Than grabbery And pushing away: There resides deep and seldom admitted The need—the need— For justice For others For binding of wounds For being heard For coming closer together For coming closer to … Continue reading
drifting together, together
I gather the covers around my neck The constellation about my soul We cast off, drifting together, together :- Doug.