Category Archives: Eldering
Imagination strangled out of everyone touching nursing homes
Imagination has been so strangled out of everyone in or touching nursing homes that the blood flow is restricted all the way to the head. :- Doug.
Providing “care” for our elders
Our way of providing “care” for our elders stems from the culture we have cultivated—rugged individualism has grown up to become everybody rely on no one else, buy everything we need—right down to someone to change our diapers. :- Doug.
Youth and elders share a common wisdom:
Youth and elders Share a common wisdom: Discretion can prevent The good we could do :- Doug.
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Doors not walls
Hate and conflict too are doorways to mutual understanding: doors, not walls. :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Eldering, Family, Healing and Wholeness
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Shunted from one place to the next
It’s not just one and done—you get resuscitated when you don’t want it. You also can get shunted from one place to the next to the next by uncaring or unthinking “systems” of people. Marketing and overworked staff, people with … Continue reading
Lamenting the younger generation
A friend was lamenting the younger generation not accepting our wisdom. No, and they won’t get our wisdom (neither receive nor comprehend nor apprehend). They will have to make up their own as they go along. It is the way … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Eldering, Healing and Wholeness
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Out beside
I cannot have a handle on you But I can camp out beside :- Doug.
Smart phones
Smart phones have increase exponentially the speed with which we can display our stupidity. :- Doug.
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They put the old man in a home
They put the old man in a home Without e’en so much as a comb But he fooled them all: One day late in fall Eloped with his bride to the Dome :- Doug.
Posted in Aging, Eldering, Long-Term Care and nursing homes, Poetry
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When we could have been
Much of what we do is unthinking forgetting to engage our profundity and collateral effects detector So that if we think to promise Mom no nursing home we ought think about her sitting helplessly watching us kill ourselves While we … Continue reading
Don’t promise me no nursing homes
Please don’t promise me to never put me in a nursing home Instead, take me to visit my old home bring from there my favorite things But do not kill yourself cleaning after me, picking up my weight, cajoling me … Continue reading
We create our deaths
We create our lives by what we say about them to one another. We do this by laws, social conventions, our own words and actions. In the same way we create our deaths. What death do you want? What death … Continue reading
Posted in Eldering, Grieving, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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