Category Archives: Family
an old friend
It’s not unsafe to acknowledge a stranger across the room as an old friend. :- Doug.
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or it is absence
Presence is receptive Or it is absence :- Doug.
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plan out the loving
As much as you would plan out the argument plan out the loving. :- Doug.
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Where the tunnels intersect
Deeper is where the tunnels intersect. :- Doug.
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keep the hospital committee away
The second most important thing you can do to keep the hospital committee away is do a Power of Attorney. :- Doug.
now the process has become visible to us
Persons grow out of meeting: meeting-relation is the primary thing and the persons secondary and generated. What this leads me to is that the person is not the brain, the brain is not the person, and that more fundamental than … Continue reading
You are really heard
You are really heard It really mattered That’s what humans do :- Doug.
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I was hurt
Perhaps approach this other person and say I was hurt. Be available. Be present. Offer and welcome. :- Doug.
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the person she or he was
She or he might not be the person she or he was, but she or he is not less than a person. :- Doug.
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the best that should happen now?
What is the best that should happen now? Why don’t you see to it? :- Doug.
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Paddle in the direction the river is going
If we concentrate on what people with Alzheimer’s are missing, on how their “condition” is affecting both of us, we stir up things for them, cause consternation, guilt, inferiority feelings and feelings of things not going rightly. But if we … Continue reading
Is there life after nursing home?
Is there life after nursing home? We can make that life, if we have the gumption. We can get out all the books and articles about helping children learn to read and to become independent, and see what makes sense. … Continue reading
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Be the love
Be the love you once thought ought belong here. :- Doug.
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What has us in common?
What has us in common? :- Doug.
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