Category Archives: Family
a center forms
When we gather a circle a center forms. :- Doug.
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when most difficult
Conversations are most valuable when most difficult to grow: facing death, grief, anger, confusion, fear. We can discover ways to overcome the difficulty. :- Doug.
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Continuously re-encounter
Continuously re-encounter :- Doug.
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So too their caregivers?
If the residents of the nursing home need something beyond mere existence, so too do their caregivers? :- Doug.
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The shell between us is thin
The shell between us is thin in places and thick If it does not crack here…. :- Doug.
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slowing-down time
We can concentrate on the pain, or we can move along to something else. We can realize that we are all in the nursing home with Mom, or deny it. We can realize that this is life and look for … Continue reading
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Significance is found in the eye
Significance is found in the eye, not in the thing itself. So it is that ordinary touches and motions can have more than ordinary significance. Changing Mom’s diaper, cleaning her, can be ordinary or an act of love. :- Doug.
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The things that go on in families
Among the things that go on in families, there is something of more than ordinary significance. :- Doug.
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It’s good to be
It’s good to be attending you attending you it’s good to be :- Doug.
Something to give, something to receive
Elder Caring Law is about the proposition that everybody has something to give, and something to receive. In giving love we receive something. Even when it seems we are being fought, there is a bit of peace hiding there somewhere, … Continue reading
gather a healthy family?
What does it mean to gather a healthy family around an elder? :- Doug.
The question of nursing homes
The question of nursing homes and their cost is at base a question of relieving worries and opening the family to moving beyond money to meaning. :- Doug.
the boundaries between us
It’s not the boundaries between us help us grow. :- Doug.
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