Monthly Archives: December 2014
The nurses and CNAs
The nurses and CNAs are untapped resources of information, intelligence, and heart. They are the sensitive fingertips of the beast, able to detect, able to handle delicate operations: able to bring meaning and human touch to a mechanical checklist—if we … Continue reading
Memory may be stored between the cells
Memory may be stored in the betweens of cells, the neighborhoods of the cells, the dendrites. There are more than a few connections made by each cell. If one cell dies, then do our memories run up a road ending … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Healing and Wholeness
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People with people
People with people working on caring for one another we are. :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Eldering
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My dream a world conversing
My dream a world conversing And look! It’s working! Traffic flows on streets and highways Business and government intermix Flowing around each other Ambulances, police, fire All one people helping people, loving Conversing :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Eldering, Poetry
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might not get better. But we can
People in nursing homes might not get better. But we can. We can treat them better. More importantly, they can live meaningfully. They can have light in their eyes. :- Doug.
Posted in Aging, Caring, Long-Term Care and nursing homes
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Life converses or it dies
Life converses or it dies. Give us a living being to care for and we flourish. :- Doug.
Beyond reverence for life
Beyond reverence for life, engage life. Put life into conversation with itself. :- Doug.
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The three Ps of nursing homes
When people talk about a family member languishing in a nursing home, I will do the caring thing if I suggest they bring in parakeets and pets and plants. :- Doug.
insert life
Let us insert life into the life-sucking nursing home regimen. :- Doug.
Unregimenting the regimented
Unregimenting the regimented: this may be the soul work of making more caring our caring for our elders. We certainly have the technology to deliver individual care. Instead we send a platoon of sergeant-nurses through the ranks of dependent people … Continue reading
If you want to grow happier, grow older
If you want to grow happier, grow older. Or at least have a near-life experience. :- Doug.
Posted in Aging, Eldering, Poetry
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Where the near-magic happens
This is where the near-magic happens. :- Doug.
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