Monthly Archives: March 2017
This is the course of eldering
The question can be restated as What is our courage to be, simply to be, here, now, to stand up and out in our world as it meets us? We have a nothingness and meaninglessness in which we are to … Continue reading
to elder a grandchild?
What can it mean to elder a grandchild, your circle, the world? :- Doug.
Ways to pay
I help people work through their end of life questions, and I help them find ways to pay for a place like this—or even a nursing home—without becoming paupers. :- Doug.
The questions
I bring the questions. :- Doug.
Why do we want clarity?
Why do we want clarity? Clarity may not be necessary We don’t even have to trust process Something shifts Open for shifting :- Doug.
Did not earlier?
What we we understand we did not earlier? :- Doug.
Youth–middling–maturity
In youth the body powers ascendant In middling they are put to use by mind In maturity a fuller understanding of humanness :- Doug.
I work for nice people
I work for nice people. Nice people are caring. That’s why I get to call myself an elder caring attorney. :- Doug.
When you think they may not
I help people get on Medicaid, even when you think they may not qualify. :- Doug.
What are you doing for the world?
What are you doing for the world? For these grandchildren? For this spot of earth? Me: I’m asking opening questions. :- Doug.
Clouds against the deep blue
Clouds against the deep blue This shape, now that, dissipating Over generations like humans :- Doug.