Category Archives: Conversation
Wills and Trusts are not difficult complex things
The difficult complex things in families are not how we write a Will or a Trust or a deed. Rather they are in getting conversations going, deciding directions, making life choices. People keep these to themselves often out of avoiding … Continue reading
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Interview your elders
Interview your elders: What is life about? What does it mean to be an elder to your tribe, to do the work of eldering? :- Doug.
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Conversation: what matters
Conversation: what matters. :- Doug.
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Law is a complex weave
Law is a complex weave of possibilities, risks, costs, feelings, interests, people, and vagaries, among other threads. It is not therefore a vending machine: money in/product out. :- Doug.
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Love letters to our families
Wills, Trusts, Powers of Attorney, Personal Care Agreements, Living Wills, end of life caring, Long-Term Caring: I help people write love letters to their families. :- Doug.
Not a problem: a paradox
Our tribe is not A problem for solving But a paradox To be lived, loved, Made ever more whole :- Doug.
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In family council
In family council we test what it means to be family—this family. We test—we find—we make. :- Doug.
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Should family stay together?
When you are considering Long-Term Care for Mom or Dad, is family important? Is it important to you that your family works together, stays together? Then getting together on purpose in a way that gets all possibilities and all issues … Continue reading
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What is our nature in this family?
What is our nature in this family? What is our responsibility? What is our possibility? :- Doug.
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A special couple
In 1998 I was attending a continuing legal education seminar in Indianapolis, and it was the first time I had been downtown since the new Center City Mall had opened, so I decided to go there for lunch. … Continue reading
We enact family
Breathing together, we enact family, we enact together. Breathing together, we learn the other person, we enter their inside, their way of thinking, being and feeling. Breathing together, we realize that we are one, that even if we don’t think … Continue reading
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