Category Archives: Death and living while dying
Dying is the work
Death is the mystery Dying is the work For those coming after :- Doug.
Value of our ending?
What is the possible value of our ending? To our culture? To those who must not yet end? :- Doug.
Dying say yes
Let me in my dying say yes to how living and dying is, without arguing with it, without agreeing with it. Meet, converse, wrestle: turn. :- Doug.
Do not fight my death
I do not want to fight my death nor give in to it to wrestle with it, turn, be turned :- Doug.
Allow Meet Welcome
Allow what life might come to you of the life now meeting yours Meet what clues of this life are opened for you Welcome the dying this opening invites you to :- Doug.
Will I like dying?
A good death? Will I like death? Can anybody ever like dying? Many in great pain long for the quiet of death, the rest of death. For them, the pain is the dying. It seems logical that we can like … Continue reading →
A dying whose time has come
This pandemic is a death; certainly many die. But it is, if we let it, a dying of something whose time has come in our culture. We are now in fearing, that is, in anticipatory grieving. Soon we will be … Continue reading →
I have not died
I have not died But I can Learn it now :- Doug.
Works of dying:
Works of dying: Missing Wrestling Angel Not being Remembering, putting together, meaning, making sense Lessons and messages What is human Becoming ancestor Testifying, truth telling Stepping down Being gathered Whole, completions Resituating :- Doug.
with them
Miss them with them :- Doug.
Abdicate death
Some say we will soon eradicate death. If we abdicate death what will become of us, our meaning, our humanity, our compassion? :- Doug.
Live into
Live into your dying. :- Doug.
Live your dying
Live your dying. :- Doug.
Meet dying
Don’t deny dying. See what’s there. Meet. :- Doug.
Living up to our dying
We can be in the dying, with the person, with our own dying. It is living up to our dying and our loved one, attuned to the larger in life. If we die mostly as we have lived, if we … Continue reading →
Asks of us
Living asks of us Dying asks of us Grieving asks of us :- Doug.
Shape of money
This lady needs our help. Together. And help is not always in the shape of money. :- Doug.