Category Archives: Caring
Safely home
We meet families in crisis and guide them safely home. :- Doug.
Sanity lives family
I tend to work on projects, things needing doing at a consequential time in people’s lives. Big things are at stake—sanity, lives, family. :- Doug.
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Higher ground than crisis
Our work needs to be beyond getting our clients through the crisis. We must get them to a higher humanity. :- Doug.
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Hear the lessons
Hence, a lot of thinking about what that transformation might be. My clients can guide me, ought to be the guides. But we can do more, much more for them, than simply the technical grunt work of the Medicaid application. … Continue reading
Baker’s Implementing:
Baker’s Implementing. Baker seems to prompt things from me. Just this morning he spoke of the professional as transforming the client. This is a higher step than service and higher than experience: help the client to become better. :- Doug.
Things we ignore
The things we ignore as attorneys—the feelings, the desire to have the family get along, etc—are the main event for the client and her family. We could help. :- Doug.
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More life in time together
More life out of their days, out of the time they have together—this is something we can help find. :- Doug.
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No, I don’t do Wills
No, I don’t do Wills. Unless you mean counseling with people on how they might best help their family and community with what they leave behind—and especially how. :- Doug.
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Want to live their love
People want to live their love when someone needs help in age. I can help these people. :- Doug.
When they will sleep
I see people who can head off a likely disaster by naming an “in case person.” Or now’s the time, and they need a paper to let them talk to doctors, hospitals, banks. I see people at their wits end … Continue reading
“In case person”
People need someone to be their “in case person:” in case I get sick, who will make good decisions for me? Others need some legal authority to make decisions for Mom or Dad or Spouse. Some people are overwhelmed by … Continue reading
Needs we cannot
Feeling inadequate, overwhelmed, anxious, and the like are some of the harder parts of having a close one whose needs we cannot alleviate. :- Doug.
Not living but living
I do this not for a living but for living. :- Doug.
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Felt quality of lives
We are improving the felt quality of clients’ lives—and of their families. :- Doug.
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Essential for Dad?
What is the essential thing for Dad and for the family in the face of Dad’s life as it is now? Essential for Dad: medical care? Custodial care? Working through the 47 things and perhaps spiritual or religious or psychological … Continue reading