Category Archives: Family

Burden is a way of saying

Burden is a way of saying “Poor, poor me,” of asking for help to see one’s worth now. A person who seeks help still has worth, is still a person. :- Doug.

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I don’t understand “being a burden”

I don’t understand what “being a burden” means. Please tell me what you imagine it means. What you have seen, felt, and heard? :- Doug.

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Dying is never entirely personal

Dying and suffering are never Entirely personal Those who love also suffer and die :- Doug.

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There is only one

Share the heart There is only one We know, we know :- Doug.

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Traces of the whole

Traces of the whole in each part Too the other way round Work to see & skill In you & me & today our traces :- Doug.

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an occasion worth celebrating

This is an occasion worth celebrating this drinking water over breakfast together :- Doug.

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The resources we already have

Family, relations, community, needs—let us pull together the resources we already have. :- Doug.

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How do we wish to be cared for with a chronic disease?

How do we wish to be cared for as we live with a chronic disease—or several—that few are equipped to deal with? :- Doug.

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All is working as it should

All is working as it should. :- Doug.

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A couple faces Alzheimer’s: enjoying

I was thinking of a particular couple and one has Alzheimer’s. They probably sometimes think their future is bleak. Then this came to me: Don’t enjoy the future: enjoy the present. :- Doug.

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We owe our communities, our families

This is something we owe our communities, our families: to have this end of life conversation, to converse. For here is caring, here is loving, here is coming together. :- Doug.

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Resources? A well-spring

Required for any task, ever in us flowing Hearts and minds Resources? A well-spring have we! :- Doug.

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choosing to gather in their sparks

the meeting of highways of life, love & meaning, of daughters & sons wives & husbands mothers & fathers of inviting & freeing & gathering this conversation is —it only takes a little seeing of who is there in front … Continue reading

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You can too

You can too Create a story with a child Give a flower to a business leader Tell us today’s story of Jean Valjean Help our many lights shine You can too :- Doug.

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Closing and completing

If people are seeking closing and completing, rounding of their togethering, then their relatings need to heal. This is the purpose of forgiving and thanking and blessing and loving: to make whole. This comes about through radical conversing: saying what … Continue reading

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It cuts deeply, to heal

Conversing is a sword’s edge, Excalibur. It cuts deeply, to heal. :- Doug.

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In each life we owe it to ourselves to meet this way once

We cannot radically converse all the time: it would be too much for us. But in each life we ought to meet this way once. :- Doug.

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