Category Archives: Death and living while dying
Flash before your eyes
Maybe your life doesn’t flash before your eyes, but floats on inner tubes on a stream. :- Doug.
Bring?
How do I bring the depth of for the grandchildren into end of life conversing? :- Doug.
Where is your spirit?
Where is your spirit today? Where do you want it to be? What new insights have you gained in your play with death? :- Doug.
Blessing the pillow
May your pillow be cool and your family warm :- Doug.
Death happiness?
Can our death be blessing—happiness? I glimpsed that death for most of us can be a blessing, in the sense of a happy making experience. A time of completion, of whole-making. :- Doug.
Time to come together
End of life is a time to come together for your life for your resonating loved ones :- Doug.
Posted in Death and living while dying, Eldering, Family, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
|
Leave a comment
Dying practice
Dying is a time to come close to one another, to round out our togethering. We cannot know what that will mean till we get there, and yet we do. We can practice this part of our dying this day … Continue reading →
Time and death are essential
Time and death are essential (not to keep every thing and every one from happening all at once) to show us our growth and possibility. :- Doug.
Learn from death?
What do we learn from death? What again? What might we learn if we were wiser? :- Doug.
We are humanity knowing death
As elders we are humanity, perhaps life, knowing its death, its losses: its limits. We intuit resulting transformation. We know uncertainty—and most certainly ambivalence. Here we serve. :- Doug.
Brink whispers
Here at the brink of life we begin to see how ephemeral we are. We catch wind of the whispers coming to us, emanating from us, the whispers we are, stirring, stirring. :- Doug.
Not fearing death
Many people do not fear death so much as the pain and struggle of dying. This is the job of hospice—and all of us. :- Doug.
Groan
First, groan the groans. :- Doug.
Dying we
Dying we are as we live. :- Doug.
Graduation
Let’s find a new metaphor for dying. Graduation. Moving up a level…. :- Doug.
Giving up on them
By not calling hospice sooner families are giving up on their loved ones, giving up on their ability to live their last months fully. :- Doug.
Thin oneself
Reach in and grab this desire to thin oneself and hook others, hook those who come after, human or otherwise. :- Doug.