Category Archives: Estates: Administration & Probate

I cannot answer your questions

I cannot answer your questions. I can only address them. Only you can answer your questions. You take in what I give you, adjust its fit and assimilate into yourself only what fits for you. :- Doug.

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I don’t care whether we use probate….

I don’t care whether we use probate or some other tool: let’s just get the job done. :- Doug.

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First, live well together….

First, live well together; second, see how the money parts can serve your living. :- Doug.

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Invite conversations of life and.

I invite conversations of life and. :- Doug.

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Vending machine picture of law

Many times we have a vending machine picture of law: put in a coin, out comes a certain result, predictably. Time by time we find we are in a flowing stream with 10,000 variables floating past, each can touch us, … Continue reading

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The bigger job of Wills?

What is the bigger job of Wills, Estates, and Powers of Attorney, if not loving well? :- 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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Work as inviting….

My work can be seen in terms of invite, free, call whole mmm. :- Doug.

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Cast your line into the water

I can be your guide, but you’ve got to cast your line into the water. :- Doug.

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Law, technicalities and guessing

Law is not solely about the technicalities: it goes beyond to what works, what is apt to work, and where peoples’ hearts want to go. All life is guessing; we must work also with art and heart. :- Doug.

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On probate and lawyers:

On probate and lawyers: Accept the assistance of another human being who seeks to ease the way for you. Muzzle not the ox who tramples grain for you—pay him or her for helping. Do not expect something for nothing—of such … Continue reading

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Weeding another’s garden

Weeding another’s garden A task I now own I’d hoped but not so easily done More work than I thought Why’d they give me this job? I have other things to do The weeds among the flowers The vegetables need … Continue reading

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Probate is a door

Probate is less a box To hold things away for a time & more a door That opens and clears the way :- Doug.

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Inventory of Personal Information

A local home care agency, Senior1Care, is offering a good inventory of personal information. It is a way to gather a lot of info that will make much easier the job of providing health care for you, as well as … Continue reading

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What is the work of concluding a loved one’s life?

What is the work of concluding a loved one’s life? Crying, burying, finding, sorting, throwing away, rearranging, finding meaning, crying some more, celebrating, forgiving, deciding not to forgive, distributing, assimilating, learning, going on. :- Doug.

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What dad leave is family work

Settlement of what Dad leaves is a family work. :- Doug.

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carrying loves and packages

I am carrying loves and packages As I walk along If I fall Who shall pick these up And how Will they love and carry To their destinations? :- Doug.

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