Category Archives: Caring

Help young lawyers

How are you going to help young lawyers if you don’t invest in reflecting, and deeply? :- Doug.

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At last, significance

At last, do your work of significance. :- Doug.

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Why poetry?

Why poetry? Because it will if practiced with love and resolve Deepen your understanding of your friends Deepen your understanding of your work Deepen your understanding of yourself :- Doug.

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Taking care taking care

Poetry is taking care with words taking care of life. :- Doug.

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Personal Hugging Equipment!

Let’s invent Personal Hugging Equipment! :- Doug.

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Plant tree

Lawyer, plant a tree. :- Doug.

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You know more

What you can see is more than lifting the fog you know more than you know :- Doug.

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Exercise could not

Will I do these things next time? Hard to say But if I did not so Exercise my imagination I could not :- Doug.

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Exploring hats

Exploring what uniform I wore and What new hat I can try on next time That is the adventure in this story :- Doug.

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Did I assimilate?

What did I assume? What did I, do I, seek to assimilate? What is my role as lawyer, counselor, human? :- Doug.

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Suggest v shouting

The evidence is in; it says I believe: That to suggest a call to make Gets us further down the path Than shouting “Justice for the Dying!” That I do not know anyone’s final best And that I feel disappointed … Continue reading

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Rap across my knuckles

A rap across my knuckles Yet training wheels for the next times: What little I did in the face of What I did not do and The way her dying was deadened :- Doug.

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This lawyer in the fog

Often it is this lawyer in the fog first the course of study devise the special testing questions What was my role in this tragedy? Was it a tragedy? For whom? What did I fear? Why did I hold back? … Continue reading

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Looking glass room

As elder caring lawyers we are privileged witnesses. We also may find a profound responsibility to witness for our people. To mirror. To open. Maybe there is a different room over there on the other side of the looking glass. … Continue reading

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Condor from out of nowhere

But you have a much larger gift you can give, or at least offer. However it will cost you. It will be a condor from out of nowhere sinking its talons into you, carrying you away, over the abyss. You … Continue reading

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Fog in the valley, nothing more

You have the gift of having seen this long-term care thing in many guises and appearances. You can see long view over their case, over their needs, and the outlines of where this will come out the other side. You … Continue reading

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Can lawyers “love?”

Can lawyers use the word “love?” Can lawyers love their clients? :- Doug.

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