Category Archives: Caring

Get beyond tired with being tired

We need somehow to get beyond being tired with being tired; perhaps immerse ourselves in this pandemic moment. What do you think? :- Doug.

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vulnerable ≠

vulnerable ≠ weak :- Doug.

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Tell it real

Tell it real. :- Doug.

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Throw down your last

Be open in a way that matters—to the other, to yourself. Throw down your last thousand. :- Doug.

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First meeting greater value

First meeting is of greater value than the work to make it so. :- Doug.

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Wonderment of dementia?

What is the wonderment of dementia? Of accompanying one with differences (no, I do not write “challenges” which would presume too much)? :- Doug.

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Son of humus

I saw, I see, my role as beyond lawyer, beyond poet to human. Son of humus. :- Doug.

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Promise me you will vote?

Will you promise me you will vote? :- Doug.

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Support counting every vote?

Will you support counting every vote? :- Doug.

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Hearing is more than listening

Hearing is more than listening Hearing is the purpose of listening As seeing is the purpose of looking And doing is the purpose of being :- Doug.

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My harvester

My hearer my harvester :- Doug.

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Release multitudes

I am seeing my way clear to teaching better. What? Not so much how but why, not so much why as direction, turning heads. Snapping heads. To seeing ourselves larger, as releasing multitudes. Walt Whitman contained multitudes; you release them. … Continue reading

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(yes I challenge you)

Life gets happier Life becomes integral —as you examine yours— (yes I challenge you) Of what’s your integrality consist? Of what’s your happiness? :- Doug.

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Softly–hardly

Aren’t we the pair? I talk softly You hear hardly :- Doug.

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Old Lawyer fun?

What are the fun parts of being an Old Lawyer? :- Doug.

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Family in fog?

What are the duties of older lawyers —to help a family in fog? :- Doug.

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Duties older?

What are the duties of lawyers —as they grow older? :- Doug.

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