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The healing work of a lawyer
The healing work of the lawyer includes also healing the family over this losing of Mom and Dad to a disease or a grave, slowly or suddenly. How do we, together, heal your family? What does your family need? What … Continue reading
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What to say to caregivers?
What to say to these caregivers? Not much. Simply invite to wholeness. Ask what are the good times? Are there compensations? What is working you these days? :- Doug.
A Will is a wish that another be well.
Weal is related to will and wish and well. So a Will is a Wish that another be Well. It pulls us out of ourselves to think of another, to think of the other’s well-being. :- Doug.
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Law is healing work
Law is one of the three original healing professions. I work to extend that healing work. :- Doug.
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Expectancy?
Do you have a life expectancy Or an expectancy of life? :- Doug.
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Making a Will is not a math problem
Making a Will is not a math problem: it is a blood, sinew and brain question: How Will I love you? :- Doug.
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The helping goes both ways
The point of conversation in elder caring is not that you need an expert to navigate this getting older maze but that we need each other. Our group brain is bigger than any one of our brains. When you come … Continue reading
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Inherit from me?
What, son, would you like to inherit from me? :- Doug.
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Matching gifts with recipients
Most folks have not thought very widely or deeply about how to make a Will—or even at all. Look at it this way: over your life you have collected a whole lot of good stuff, and some of it … Continue reading
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Of Wills, dumping and arranging
When you make your Will, are you making a dump cake, or a better future (for your kids, for others)? How wide do you stir? Are you merely unloading the dump truck, or are you consciously arranging your gifts to … Continue reading
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Joy of burden
In your old age Give your children and grandchildren The joy of the burden of you :- Doug.
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If I see my role as healer–
If I see my role as healer— it means I listen more I hope it means I hear more for more is in these hearts ready to come to voice from coeur can come spreading roots, engaging roots, living roots, … Continue reading
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What is my work as a lawyer?
What is my work as a lawyer? I am getting the inkling it is about whole-making, about bringing the family of humankind to a larger wholeness, completeness, fullness. It is not about solving problems but about living life. :- Doug.
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