Category Archives: Caring
It’s good to be
It’s good to be attending you attending you it’s good to be :- Doug.
Something to give, something to receive
Elder Caring Law is about the proposition that everybody has something to give, and something to receive. In giving love we receive something. Even when it seems we are being fought, there is a bit of peace hiding there somewhere, … Continue reading
gather a healthy family?
What does it mean to gather a healthy family around an elder? :- Doug.
With us, lost
With us, lost :- Doug.
Posted in Alzheimer's and other dementias, Caring, Eldering, Poetry
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scary to think
It’s scary to think getting lost is the way worse to have someone tell us even more to have them take us by the hand :- Doug.
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It’s not niceness
Care is a financial transaction Caring is compassion Fellow-being (not feeling) It’s not niceness It’s getting to real :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Eldering, Poetry
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beyond competence
I am moving beyond competence. :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Eldering
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an old friend
It’s not unsafe to acknowledge a stranger across the room as an old friend. :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Eldering, Family, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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plan out the loving
As much as you would plan out the argument plan out the loving. :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Family
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higher level of caring
We are in a position to foster—to generate—a new and higher level of caring for elders in our community. :- Doug.
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buy or given?
Care is something you buy. Caring is something given. :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Poetry
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Nurses, CNAs, doctors, and social workers
Nurses, CNAs, doctors, and social workers find their higher callings to help being quashed by greed thinking. We can stand up for them by speaking truth to power, but even more directly by letting them see their own creative powers … Continue reading
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people with a disease
We are not here to care for people with a disease, we are here to meet. Seeing the face of a disease and not the person is an issue for our society. :- Doug.
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now the process has become visible to us
Persons grow out of meeting: meeting-relation is the primary thing and the persons secondary and generated. What this leads me to is that the person is not the brain, the brain is not the person, and that more fundamental than … Continue reading
The baseline law
Why is community disorganizing law? Because the law we have at base is life. We must revere life, we must intensify life, increase the degree of living we do, and those around us do. This can be a soft gentle … Continue reading
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You are really heard
You are really heard It really mattered That’s what humans do :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Conversation, Family, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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