Category Archives: Conversation
Conversations
The breeze is communing with the leaves the leaves gathering the spring sun the birds calling out “It’s here! Come play!” :- Doug.
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Wind’s conversation
Wind’s conversation We are :- Doug.
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Washing machines, tangled brush piles, atoms
Washing machines, tangled brush piles, atoms—physical things—are easy to manipulate in our minds. Other things, especially actions—like conversations, relationships, movement—have many more possible interactions, and so are more difficult to grasp. :- Doug.
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Elders say the darnedest things
Elders say the darnedest things. :- Doug.
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A quiet little elder caring law practice
We have a quiet little elder caring law practice caring for people caring for their family. For instance, we help these ways: —Powers of assistance, if it’s soon enough —If it is later, Judge signed licenses to care for (They … Continue reading
Can we ever say?
Can we ever Say all we wanted to say? Hear well enough? :- Doug.
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lacking rhythm?
At the reception last night, I saw a couple of old people who were sitting at tables, staring off into nothing. It seemed to me they lacked the rhythm with the people around them, were no longer in sync. Perhaps … Continue reading
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Poetic time
We have poetic time, which is also beyond profane time. It flies, it reaches back, it reaches into our psyches shadowing us. Convergent, divergent, snaking, devious, and straight on to the core, coeur, corps. Few and fewer words to say … Continue reading
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Bridge to this old person
What is the bridge between you and this old person? How can you cross? What the nature of the space between you? :- Doug.
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What other things do we do together?
Listen to your heart, listen to your breathing. Notice the other’s breathing. Notice your movements together. Do we each fold our arms? Do we respond to the other’s nods, gestures? Does the same gesture follow one particular movement? When one … Continue reading
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When without words
How do we converse when without words: maybe with rhythm, rhythms of which we are not aware, but might find ways to notice. :- Doug.
Family being larger
Let us converse with our family Family being larger than we think Conversing being larger too :- Doug.
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Rhythms in a nursing home
There are rhythms of life in say a nursing home. The rhythms are like languages where people cannot understand one another. There is the long flowing beat of the older, the staccato of the staff. :- Doug.
Opportunities in making a Will
What are your opportunities in making a Will and testament? To get rid of, to pass along wisdom, to connect generations, to proselytize? What are the profane uses, the sacred? :- Doug.
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Just you and me
The world is conversation Just you and me Thee and thou Us and them Him and her Only us and us and us All in here And no out there :- Doug.
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Conversations within conversations
Living beings are conversations within conversations—autonomous but requiring each other. Bacteria within bodies, cells within bacteria, persons within families, wind water sun earth within our planetary system. :- Doug.
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