Category Archives: Aging
Your last 30 years
Your last 30 years What good will you? :- Doug.
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Replanted in a nursing home
When Mom is pulled up by the roots Replanted in a nursing home We are ripped apart There is a hole in the garden Or we can see the garden wider Extending to the nursing home Fertilized by love What … Continue reading
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Inviting old age to pour
I invite this old age estuary to pour into the sea, to expand and spread itself. This is a larger picture than devising the meaning of one’s life, of hugging and forgiving and laughing and crying at our death bed. … Continue reading
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Elder fun
Friends– http://www.deepfun.com/fun/category/theory/elder-fun/ :- Doug.
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Slow the rhythms
What are the most health stimulating, wholeness inducing rhythms we can employ in elder caring lawyering? Slow the rhythms, open: allowing for all voices to be heard, from piccolo to bassoon, from kettle drum to marimba, from plaintive violin to … Continue reading
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The right answer to aging?
What is the right answer to aging? What is the right answer to caring for your parents? :- 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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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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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