Category Archives: Family

Have they forgotten…?

Yesterday they put Mom in the nursing home This morning dropped the kids at the day care Now they can get on with their life Have they forgotten their life is Mom, is the kids? Have they forgotten their life? … Continue reading

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Are we making family?

Are we making family while we’re in the midst of crisis? :- Doug.

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Do we have time for family in crisis?

Do we have time to make family when we’re in the middle of crisis? Which is more important? :- Doug.

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Changing what it means to be this family….

When you get together to work your way through your setting you are finding and making your family. What it means to be this family will change for ever. :- Doug.

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When we’re turning a page….

What does it mean to be family when we’re turning a page? How do we make family? :- Doug.

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Not a problem: a paradox

Our tribe is not A problem for solving But a paradox To be lived, loved, Made ever more whole :- Doug.

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Family is unlimited

Family is unlimited—let’s test and see. :- Doug.

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A process for making families whole

Family council is a process for making families whole. :- Doug. Family council is a process for making families whole.

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In family council

In family council we test what it means to be family—this family. We test—we find—we make. :- Doug.

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Should family stay together?

When you are considering Long-Term Care for Mom or Dad, is family important? Is it important to you that your family works together, stays together? Then getting together on purpose in a way that gets all possibilities and all issues … Continue reading

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How important is family?

How important is family to us now? :- Doug.

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What is our nature in this family?

What is our nature in this family? What is our responsibility? What is our possibility? :- Doug.

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A special couple

  In 1998 I was attending a continuing legal education seminar in Indianapolis, and it was the first time I had been downtown since the new Center City Mall had opened, so I decided to go there for lunch.   … Continue reading

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When the end of life conversation is difficult

Sometimes, the end of life conversation is difficult because we do not know what options are open to us, when we might say enough, about what subjects we might converse. :- Doug.

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A pearl upon a strand

Consider what might be a God’s-eye view of our lives and our families: a pearl upon a strand. Can we see death as a chapter, not an ending? There is one life, and it lives on. :- Doug.

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Your birth and death are prelude

Your birth and death are each prelude to what happens next—for your family, for our tribe, for humanity. :- Doug.

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Not a beginning nor ending

For the family, birth or death of one of its members is a chapter, an event to be marked, yet not a beginning nor ending. Something is lost and something gained: through all, the whole grows. How does your family … Continue reading

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