Monthly Archives: July 2015

Water, wind, and sun

Water, wind, and sun meet, merge, change converse like these :- Doug.

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Memento parit

Remember to birth whatever your age Memento parit :- Doug.

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Where’s the poetry?

Where’s the poetry in this? :- Doug.

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Sign I’d like to have people see

Sign to see on every elderly person in a nursing home: “Ask me what I prefer.” :- Doug.

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The baby coos and gurgles

The baby coos and gurgles We smile The old man coos and gurgles We cringe For one we have been there And know what joys lie ahead For the other we fear we may know Something else that is ahead … Continue reading

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Pattern of the whole cloth

How we mend the world is through the stitches of conversation. One at a time, this piece rejoins that, and we begin to see the pattern of the whole cloth. :- Doug.

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My mind could go away

My mind could go away, as in Alzheimer’s for instance. My ability to write, to think, to pray, to meditate. And then would I not be meditating all day, just being present to what was happening inside and out? :- … Continue reading

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long suit

My long suit is the long meeting, so that people can come out with a direction and be comfortable with it. :- Doug.

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You maybe want to talk

You maybe want to talk about people who have died, or deaths you have witnessed, or medical care, or vivere dum mori (live while you are dying). :- Doug.

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Death Café Death Over Dinner

Let us take Death Café and Death Over Dinner to a practical level. Let us meet for a day, a few families to round out our thinking and take it deeper, let us come out with knowing each other better, … Continue reading

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always larger

There is a larger way of looking at this. :- Doug.

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You must vindicate me

You must vindicate me You must show what I say You are the promise of me :- Doug.

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each good

Varying and each good—aha! :- Doug.

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Fear the enemy

Fear the enemy Love the commonality Hiding the tactic Saying who we are the armor Gathering of brokenness the strength Conversing the easy courage How we live our dying the common ground Fights the halfway up the mountain Leaving them … Continue reading

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most important thing to convey

In starting the conversation, the most important thing to convey is your openness to have the conversation. :- Doug.

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Where the juice spills out

We’re all broken The broken parts are where The juice spills out! :- Doug.

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Dying ain’t the business of doctors

Dying ain’t the business of doctors. Dying ain’t even a business. :- Doug.

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