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Elder Caring Lawyer

dying and

I am exploring living and dying and :- Doug.

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Present and lively

Are you exploring or have you figured it out? one is present and lively :- Doug.

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The more sure you are

The more sure you are, the less you know. :- Doug.

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Live the emptiness

Live, live the emptiness of our dying open, open to this :- Doug.

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Vertical questions

Vertical questions flow downhill: if you won’t ask never before asked questions, the grandchildren can’t ask even deeper. If your stories don’t, theirs won’t. :- Doug.

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Season to season

My life changes season to season. :- Doug.

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My stories (mysteries?)

How do my stories (mysteries?) get people to ask questions, reflexive questions of self? :- Doug.

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workers in life purposes

We as lawyers and elders are workers in life purposes and meanings. :- Doug.

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Became part of them

The stories and sayings became part of them that’s the way to travel 300 years :- Doug.

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See yourself strange

Examine your story with an object of seeing your own self strange. :- Doug.

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Cartoon your story

Draw/Describe cartoons of your story. :- Doug.

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Retell and retell

Retell and retell your story from the perspectives of the others involved. :- Doug.

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The practice of people

The practice of law is the practice of people. The practice of law is the practice of conversing. :- Doug.

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Ask a never-before

Impossible it probably is To say something new But to ask a never-before Asked question —Ahh! :- Doug.

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Engage artistry

There are plenty of things to which we will not be able to go back. So we must resolve to engage artistry. :- Doug.

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No good death

I don’t want you to have a good death: rather, your own dying. :- Doug.

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Pain comes from expectations

Pain comes from expectations and from the extent by which we miss them. :- Doug.

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