Category Archives: Conversation
Our holy work is to
Our holy work is to expand worlds: of individuals and families facing tough long-term care decisions, and of communities wanting to be communities. :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Conversation, Eldering, Family, Healing and Wholeness
Leave a comment
What opens us?
What is holy about my work? :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Family, Healing and Wholeness
Leave a comment
Arguments–spats–like closings
Arguments—spats—seem like closings—I wonder if sometimes they still are openings—especially if we can get past feeling uncomfortable. :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Eldering, Family
Leave a comment
This is holy work
This is holy work, sacred. What makes it so? Bringing us together, opening. :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Conversation, Eldering, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
Leave a comment
Engaging people, their world, for good
I converse. That is my work: engaging people in their world for good. Specifically for Mom and Dad facing difficulties thinking, getting along, staying healthy. :- Doug.
You are affected by Mom’s health
Reflection might start with getting people to see how they are affected by Mom’s or Dad’s health, by admitting their own vulnerable confusion and overwhelm, and finding their own role in the matter. :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Conversation, Eldering, Family, Healing and Wholeness
Leave a comment
I get to ask, “How?”
I get to ask, “How?” How do we care for Mom and Dad When thinking becomes difficult? Walking? Eating? Taking medicines? I get to ask this of families And of communities :- Doug.
Posted in Aging, Caring, Conversation, Family, Poetry
Leave a comment
Unearthing shared perceptions
Unearthing shared perceptions might be a key. Leading toward wider perceptions of the world in which they find themselves. Look at the grey cloth, examine it, then look through it, eventually poke holes. :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Family
Leave a comment
To see who sees
Paint a vision to see who sees :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Eldering, Family, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
Leave a comment
I may have to use my super powers
In this upcoming meeting a prickly person an entangling knot I may have to use my super powers put on a mask so I don’t recognize myself love us in a single bound affability, imagination, hearing: these our cape and … Continue reading
Posted in Conversation, Eldering, Family, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
Leave a comment
My long suit
My long suit is long conferences. :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Conversation
Leave a comment
Carrying ourselves in a small pitcher
Before we meet we have carried ourselves in a small pitcher. When we meet we pour ourselves into a larger bowl. :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Family, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
Leave a comment
Song surreptitiously
To invite deeper conversation: Share a song surreptitiously: what were the words to X? :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Eldering, Family
Leave a comment
Deeper conversaion:
To invite deeper conversation: share a reflective song, for example, What a Wonderful World. :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Eldering, Family
Leave a comment
Silence is a massage
Silence is a massage Of brain, heart, and will :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Conversation, Eldering, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
Leave a comment