Category Archives: Caring

Where are all the butterflies gone…?

Where are all the butterflies gone In elder caring? :- Doug.

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Time for you

Time for you. :- Doug.

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Business people sometimes

Business people sometimes As children caring for aging parents Act as if the song Did not need an ending :- Doug.

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Caring means

Caring means we don’t just provide care to you, we care about you. :- Doug.

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To cause someone to laugh

To cause someone to laugh Is to love them :- Doug.

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Years spent caring for an older person: rewarding?

Have you spent months or years caring for a parent or person older than you? Despite the difficulties, was it rewarding? Please share examples…. :- Doug.

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Fade into all your playmates

Give your self Every day To those with whom you play To those you’d invite to play To the playing Then when you’re having most fun Some day You’ll be lucky enough To fade into all your playmates :- Doug.

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On the trail

I’m on the trail of parent and child finding new ways to care for one another. :- Doug.

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Papa has “a touch the dementia”

Papa has “a touch the dementia” Mama knows better than the doctors, The financial planners and the lawyers, all Daughter’s emotions have static electricity Social Security says son’s intellect disables him The other daughter is overwhelmed By the financial numbers, … Continue reading

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A palliative care lawyer?

Am I a palliative care lawyer? Alleviate pain, find wholeness where the old paths are no longer open…. :- Doug.

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I cannot answer your questions

I cannot answer your questions. I can only address them. Only you can answer your questions. You take in what I give you, adjust its fit and assimilate into yourself only what fits for you. :- Doug.

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Managing someone else’s money

Friends– The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (a US government agency) has recently published some plain English guides available for free download. They will soon be available in print for free, too. The guide topics are: Powers of attorney Court-appointed Guardians … Continue reading

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Think not

Think not: meet. :- Doug.

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Draw larger circles

Draw larger circles. :- Doug.

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the all of us, the together of us

Engage, consciously engage, the all of the all of us, and the together of us: here is how we progress, here is how we love. :- Doug.

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Going around in circles

Going around in circles The wheel progresses :- Doug.

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the first work

The work set in front of you is at least the first work. :- Doug.

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