Monthly Archives: July 2015
When I’m 64
When I’m 64 was a land only rumored of Then But it’s pretty lively Now :- Doug.
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slowing-down time
We can concentrate on the pain, or we can move along to something else. We can realize that we are all in the nursing home with Mom, or deny it. We can realize that this is life and look for … Continue reading
Posted in Caring, Family, Poetry
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Significance is found in the eye
Significance is found in the eye, not in the thing itself. So it is that ordinary touches and motions can have more than ordinary significance. Changing Mom’s diaper, cleaning her, can be ordinary or an act of love. :- Doug.
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The things that go on in families
Among the things that go on in families, there is something of more than ordinary significance. :- Doug.
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Is this courage little?
In ignorant space The open space of not knowing Of not knowing being Can we courageously here attend? Is this courage little? :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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It’s good to be
It’s good to be attending you attending you it’s good to be :- Doug.
Something to give, something to receive
Elder Caring Law is about the proposition that everybody has something to give, and something to receive. In giving love we receive something. Even when it seems we are being fought, there is a bit of peace hiding there somewhere, … Continue reading
gather a healthy family?
What does it mean to gather a healthy family around an elder? :- Doug.
Whole-in-Law
What I’m up to is Whole-In-Law! :- Doug.
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The question of nursing homes
The question of nursing homes and their cost is at base a question of relieving worries and opening the family to moving beyond money to meaning. :- Doug.
don’t know where this is going
I don’t know where this is going to take us. I know that your objection or detour is an important part of where we need to go. I need to go to some place deeper with this, for if we … Continue reading
Posted in Conversation, Eldering, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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the boundaries between us
It’s not the boundaries between us help us grow. :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Family, Healing and Wholeness
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