Category Archives: Family
These inquiries
These inquiries with clients do need to be on-going and in-built. What matters to you now? What matters to your other family members? Tell me about a time when you acted together well. What could make this long-term care challenge … Continue reading
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Truth can be imagined
Truth can be imagined. :- 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.
peace of mind. sooner.
Long-term care: peace of mind. Sooner. :- Doug.
“Sickness and in health:”
“Sickness and in health:” in those days sickness left in a few days or weeks. We had no inkling that sickness could be the balance of someone’s life. :- Doug.
To see who sees
Paint a vision to see who sees :- 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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The thread in our needle
The thread in our needle is twining itself into thread as we stitch our fabric together :- 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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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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Big W Work
My big W Work is bringing together wives husbands parents children Medicaid VA nursing homes friends fun & life :- Doug.
The clearing is in the wood
The clearing is in the wood The wood is in the landscape The land is surrounded by waters This wet globule is in the galaxy And all this and more And you Sharing the necessity Of accepting This the the … Continue reading
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Opening my clients to a more possible world
In this practice, I am opening my clients to a larger, more possible world, if only in little mundane ways: programs to pay for things, ways to reorganize financial details, how to organize this family’s days. But maybe in larger … Continue reading
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Carrying ourselves in a small pitcher
Before we meet we have carried ourselves in a small pitcher. When we meet we pour ourselves into a larger bowl. :- Doug.
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find their creativity
Ask Mom or Dad to make a painting, poem, sculpture; find their creativity. :- Doug.
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with Dad?
What can we create with Dad? :- Doug.
Song surreptitiously
To invite deeper conversation: Share a song surreptitiously: what were the words to X? :- Doug.
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