Category Archives: Dreams

elder warehousing

Let’s decry elder warehousing but daily the invitation let’s celebrate! :- Doug.

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Summons or invitations?

For a business to provide care for a senior runs the risk of warehousing—providing a place for waiting for the final summons. Yet…what if we were elders…and had a calling…and were looking for invitations? :- Doug.

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Elminate boundaries, open horizons

The effect of Elder Caring Law is to eliminate boundaries to life and finance and health: to open new horizons of time, connection, and wholeness. :- Doug.

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Bequeath someon a dream

Bequeath someone a dream better yet, devise it for it is real :- Doug.

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Give a broken thing

Give a broken thing Broken things still have songs left in them :- Doug.

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Know any elders doing amazing things?

Hi– Do you know any elders doing amazing things? For instance, look at Glen Campbell, still singing professionally even though he has Alzheimer’s. If you know personally anybody doing amazing things, we’d like to share about them here–tell us their … Continue reading

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How I want to live before I die

Here is how I want to live before I die. And if I want to live this way, shall we now? :- Doug.

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The poetry of your life

The poetry of your life— where does it reside? in sons and daughters wives and husbands places we’ve lived jobs we’ve given up work which grew us tasks we were called to perhaps against our wills scraps of life we … Continue reading

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Your heirs will sing

What would cause the lives of our heirs to sing? Let us think about our heirs, our children, our grandchildren: What kind of a sense of humor does she have? What are his interests? With what does her imagination soar? … Continue reading

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What worlds create?

With a Will What worlds Can we Create? What ideals Now populate? What hearts Evocate? :- Doug.

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Our whole work

Our whole work is conversing, engaging, encountering, meeting: our whole work is bringing us to whole, our whole work is whole-making, whole-realizing. Our whole work is conversing. :- Doug.

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What we shouldn’t tell our grandchildren

We shouldn’t tell our grandchildren that they have a lifetime in front of them. Don’t sugar coat. They have a few short years and had better choose wisely and get to work quickly and effectively. :- Doug.

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Still living at your age?

We are still living at this age not because there is something for us to do; rather there is to love more opportunity given us. :- Doug.

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Before you visit your lawyer for your Will

Before you visit your lawyer for your Will, visit your journaling pad. Complete this sentence: My daughter, my son, I want for you…. :- Doug.

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family & life & dreams

At this market we are selling completeness and wholeness of family & life & dreams :- Doug.

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Nurturing dreams

A Will is a way of nurturing dreams—those of your tribe as a whole, particular ones of your children and other beneficiaries. What do they dream? How can you help? What do you have—especially besides things? :- Doug.

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There once was a couple….

Once there was a couple who sought to make their Wills. They thought about their children’s loves and skills and difficulties. They thought about their house of worship. They thought about all the things they did in the world: work … Continue reading

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