Category Archives: Family
Tear times
Tear times, good times. :- Doug.
Posted in Family, Grieving, Healing and Wholeness
Leave a comment
The courage
It is possible for families to come together. It is possible for families to live while they are dying, some sooner than others. It is possible to have good times in tear time. Tenderness toward one another, knowing and being … Continue reading
Posted in Caring, Conversation, Family
Leave a comment
Butterflies are able
Butterflies are able in thinner air we are capable of rarer conversation :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Family, Poetry
Leave a comment
What conversations bring Daddy alive?
What conversations bring Daddy alive? :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Conversation, Eldering, Family, Healing and Wholeness
Leave a comment
For whom you love
For whom you love Take responsibility Child for parent Parent for child For love It’s what we do It’s who we are :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Family, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
Leave a comment
More than the sum
More than the sum of its parts a human is a family a community :- Doug.
Posted in Family
Leave a comment
Butterflies in the practice of elder caring law?
Butterflies in the practice of elder caring law? Gather the parents, gather the children, find the flowers, do what we can. We ought find and nurture the good stuff, the life we are still living. Together. :- Doug.
Posted in Caring, Eldering, Family, Healing and Wholeness
Leave a comment
We do not hear
The profoundest words we do not hear come in our own voices or in that of our neighbor whom we don’t much like or in those of the persons around us everyday :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Family, Poetry
Leave a comment
Hearing each other
Hearing each other Can recreate Our world :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Family, Poetry
Leave a comment
What I have to say
What I have to say is not as important as what I have to hear is not as important as hearing each other :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Family, Poetry
Leave a comment
Conversation is hard
Conversation is hard I can never get all I want I am thwarted, opposed On every side My ideas turn to mush My arguments fall apart And possibly my mind Caterpillar-like I travel On too many legs Do we all … Continue reading
Posted in Conversation, Family, Poetry
Leave a comment
I won’t ask you to agree with me
I won’t ask you to agree with me. I do hope you will see some of what I see, that you will help me see some of what you see. :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Family
Leave a comment
Thinking out loud
Thinking out loud Makes poetry Brings us closer :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Family, Poetry
Leave a comment
Handling a loved one’s estate is an adventure:
Handling a loved one’s estate is an adventure: in doing what they wanted; in finding ways to conserve one’s energy; in finding ways to do good for others. A client is handling her father’s estate, caring for an ill aunt, … Continue reading
the longer it takes to retrieve
The more you know the longer it takes to retrieve it with computers we off-load some of this to archive perhaps we try to expand our memory by off-loading to our spouses! :- Doug.
Posted in Aging, Eldering, Family, Poetry
Leave a comment