Category Archives: Eldering
This is holy work
This is holy work, sacred. What makes it so? Bringing us together, opening. :- Doug.
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Seeking an even larger view
I have felt best about my work when I sat with the man whose wife is in the nursing home and we pondered about how life changed in a stroke—literally—and how to respond to a daughter who is both in … Continue reading
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You are affected by Mom’s health
Reflection might start with getting people to see how they are affected by Mom’s or Dad’s health, by admitting their own vulnerable confusion and overwhelm, and finding their own role in the matter. :- Doug.
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Bright colors and dull
Bright colors and dull Little children teach us older ones To live :- Doug.
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Truth can be imagined
Truth can be imagined. :- Doug.
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Do birds ever fly just for fun?
Do birds ever fly just for fun? To feel the air through their feathers? Do puppies ever tumble over each other? Do humans ever play? What’s the worth and need of it? :- Doug.
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We are not rapidly approaching…
We are not rapidly approaching the limits of what I know. We crossed that frontier long ago! :- Doug.
Not one of us completes life
Not one of us completes life Life lives for ever new starts In new shoots and old stalks :- Doug.
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This is the hiding place
Create your own experiences This the hiding place of life The the pouring out of love :- Doug.
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for our age
Courage offers heart for our age ;- Doug.
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To see who sees
Paint a vision to see who sees :- Doug.
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Diverticulitis
Diverticulitis—one of the perquisites of getting older. :- Doug.
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I’m waiting for you my sons
I’m waiting for you my sons to grow up to gather some depths so we might meet :- Doug.
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I may have to use my super powers
In this upcoming meeting a prickly person an entangling knot I may have to use my super powers put on a mask so I don’t recognize myself love us in a single bound affability, imagination, hearing: these our cape and … Continue reading
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a breakthrough in legal practice
This might just mean that a breakthrough in legal practice will emerge. It certainly cannot if we do not do the experiment. The opportunity is here as well as out there. From here the community can grow. Community is beyond … Continue reading
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This is about bringing together
I have been on the cusp of seeing that I can bring this more into my practice: to get people to engage more, to take a human part, by starting the personal, humanly vulnerable ways. They do not even have … Continue reading
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