Category Archives: Family
Sidestep argument
Sidestep argument change the terms, the words, the actions —embrace the other (the other you)! :- Doug.
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Let’s invite some conversation!
Let’s invite some conversation! :- Doug.
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Winds, winds: blow
Winds, winds: blow winds, wind around my heart from where and to where unknown to us, calling to us to go to where, to find from where we may: ever unknown yet ever we are given to make up for … Continue reading
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Labyrinths stand for elder caring work
Labyrinths stand for elder caring work, and for conversation within that work. You are in a place dark and foreboding, with directions and bits and pieces of information scattered, now a straight line, now a fork in the road. When … Continue reading
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Be curious for one another
Be curious for one another. It is a way of love. :- Doug.
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It will take all of us
It will take all of us to love the whole of us. :- Doug.
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For the good of our grandchildren?
What can we be—and do–for the good of our grandchildren, for seven generations? :- Doug.
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Within your family
Within your family celebrate your differences from these you find newness you create Within your family celebrate your likenesses you are more alike than different from these you can touch each other be touched Within your family blood & beyond … Continue reading
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I see families gathering
I see families gathering around their elders, caring for one another. :- Doug.
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A life of conversation looks like this:
A life of conversation looks like this: Grandchildren one on one and in circles. Family gathering. One on one with the family of humankind, whomever we meet out and about. Inviting something deeper in conferences. Spirit flowing and ebbing among … Continue reading
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I love you
I love you says what matters are our betweenings :- Doug.
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fold in some gratitude
To smooth the edges of anger fold in some gratitude for anything at all :- Doug.
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Creative responsibility
Not right by design It takes some fiddling To arrive not at perfection Better :- Doug.
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When I water my garden
When I water my garden, I am moving water around: from too deep for the plants to benefit, to the top where it percolates through their roots and back again. Flowing and returning like love. :- Doug.
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Gather our human family
We gather our human family to care for one another. :- Doug.
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