Category Archives: Family

A favorite song of your mother’s?

What is a favorite song of your mother? What does it mean to you? :- Doug.

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This conversation can make this family better

This conversation can make the world better. Our corner of the world. This family. Us. :- Doug.

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It could be possible

It could be possible. :- Doug.http://www.southbendeldercaringlaw.com/wp-login.php?action=logout&_wpnonce=a08c4b1ea5

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Dialogue negotiates transformation

Dialogue negotiates transformation. :- Doug.

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Interesting stuff happens

Open ears. Open mouth. Interesting stuff happens. :- Doug.

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What’s the one thing we have to do right?

What’s the one thing we have to do right? Let’s make a way. :- Doug.

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What good happens?

What good happens when you speak with one another? :- Doug.

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Who can we as family yet be?

Who can we as family yet be? :- Doug.

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Work to do

The loving have work to do right up to the last minute. :- Doug.

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Even though she has dementia

Even though she has dementia, she still has her capacity to want, to like, to choose, to love, to express, to be needed, to be a part of family and friends, to be hurt and impinged upon. Our job is … Continue reading

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History rewritten

History can be rewritten the next chapter. :- Doug.

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Future can rewrite past, soft brush

Healing reframes whole lives. Future can rewrite past, we can use a soft brush, a new color. :- Doug.

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Attention the lens

Attention may be the lens that shows us grief, pain, hate, and love, wholeness, inclusion. :- Doug.

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Yes, this is painful

Yes, this is painful Yes, this is hard Yes, we can do it :- Doug.

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safe from the crisis

The conversations I invite take place safe from the crisis. Yet they prepare us for the crisis. In a sense they are memento mori (remember dying): memento viventium (remember living) in the face of memento mori. Not so we have … Continue reading

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The need to hate each other

Like husbands and wives, even sometimes siblings, we need to not like each other very much, to hate each other, in order to get to owning our love of one another. :- Doug.

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Growth of a different sort?

As we get older our species Draws ever smaller circles Community becomes friends Becomes family—reversing Our course of younger years Growth of a different sort? Growth work that especially The dying and the demented do :- Doug.

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