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Elder caring is like running the East Race
Elder caring is like running the East Race. I do not know how it will come out. It is different each time. :- Doug.
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When one of us is aging….
When one of us is aging our only options are to respond with love or fear. Anything not love is fear. :- Doug.
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This family can….
This family can live and love into our future. Let’s get to work. :- Doug.
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What would you be willing to do?
What would you be willing to do to help your family come alive now? :- Doug. What would you be willing to do to help your family come alive now?
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How young are you?
How young are you? :- Doug.
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What questions could this family ask?
What questions could this family ask which would start us on a game of hide and seek? :- Doug.
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Working with caring people
I work with caring people some of whom are elders of our tribe :- Doug.
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Thinking clearly with our hearts.
Thinking clearly with our hearts. :- Doug.
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Blessing are here
One of the most pernicious things we do in this society is to act as if we are separate from others, especially from our family and friends. They benefit from us, and we from them. We should not withdraw, fearing … Continue reading
Ask for bigger eyes
It is difficult in family long term care settings to see any larger truth, let alone make sense of it. What to do when we are blind? Maybe we can ask of one another: What else do you notice? What … Continue reading
profoundly, strategically, madly letting go in our family?
So how do we profoundly, strategically, madly let to in a family system? We get hung up over what without question we believe is true. It is not true. What is true? I do not know. You do not know. … Continue reading
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Our maladies last longer
Our modern medicine has not made our maladies disappear; it has only made them last longer: made chronic what used to be acute. :- Doug.
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Rounding out our lives together?
How may we yet Be about Rounding our lives together? :- Doug.
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A terrible thing to waste
It’s a terrible thing to waste our elders. :- Doug.
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Our elders: a resource we’re wasting.
Our elders: a resource we’re wasting. :- Doug.
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turn our heads when lost
We often get stuck in what’s not working, what’s the problem. Let us resolve to turn our heads when lost and see what is working. In our families, when we are hurt or afraid and want to pull away, we … Continue reading
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