Category Archives: Family
If Mama ain’t happy
If Mama ain’t happy ain’t nobody happy If Daddy’s in the nursing facility ain’t nobody not in the nursing facility :- Doug.
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Don’t look at how much money this long-term care strategy will save you
Don’t look at how much money this long-term care strategy will save you; rather how much life is engendered: life in food and shelter for Mom, life in providing for her husband and children, life in the lessons she can … Continue reading
let’s try this on again
A heart available vulnerable lost let’s try this on again :- Doug.
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You are my heart-work
You are my heart-work. :- Doug.
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You my parents and grandparents
A thread of life there runs from you my parents and grandparents back through eons of eons through me to you my children and grandchildren on forward eons of eons it counts for us as immortality ’tis up to me … Continue reading
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When I’m 95
In every way that matters When I’m 95 When you’re 95 We will see In every way that matters We are just like each other Let’s start now :- Doug.
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Conversation is not words
Conversation is not words rather an exchange of being poetry flowing :- Doug.
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This circus belongs
This circus belongs to us clowns and elephants greasepaint and canvas laughter and applaudable unreality this much is real: you belong to me, I to you and the whole world one belongs to us :- Doug.
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Among us
Among us wholeness moves Totally present Absolutely invisible :- Doug.
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open me
My silence can open me to nuances of you :- Doug.
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The family responsibility question
The family responsibility question (shall the law force daughter and son to pay for their parents’ nursing home?) really points up the fact that the kind of care we get is a commercial transaction, and one of choices we make. … Continue reading
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Nursing homes: keeping your spouse out of poverty
We have some things that might help keep the spouse at home out of poverty, while giving the one in the nursing home the care the family wants, extending it as long as they choose. But notice there is a … Continue reading
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Last night this question wrestled with me:
Last night this question wrestled with me: how do we care for people, do we really need so much nursing home, are we trying to hold back the sea with our hands? In different words, when do we let go, … Continue reading
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Picking your path
How will you pick your path through these woods? :- Doug.
If money
If money is the only thing you can think to give away how poor! :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Family, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry, Wills
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Let the bird
Let the bird find its own perch the new might not fit the way you think receive :- Doug.
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