Category Archives: Family
What would family wholeness look like for your family?
What would family wholeness look like for your family? :- Doug. What would family wholeness look like for your family?
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The first work: live fully
The first work is to help families and communities live as fully as they can, whatever their stage of life: sick and fragile; young and athletic; wise and seeking the holy. All alive can live well now. :- Doug.
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Why is “I love you” important to us?
What are the 100 important daily things you want to do up to the moment you die? The things that make living worth going on? Last night I asked this of a group of people and got responses like Ride … Continue reading
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Making a Will is not a math problem
Making a Will is not a math problem: it is a blood, sinew and brain question: How Will I love you? :- Doug.
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The helping goes both ways
The point of conversation in elder caring is not that you need an expert to navigate this getting older maze but that we need each other. Our group brain is bigger than any one of our brains. When you come … Continue reading
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Inherit from me?
What, son, would you like to inherit from me? :- Doug.
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Of Wills, dumping and arranging
When you make your Will, are you making a dump cake, or a better future (for your kids, for others)? How wide do you stir? Are you merely unloading the dump truck, or are you consciously arranging your gifts to … Continue reading
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Joy of burden
In your old age Give your children and grandchildren The joy of the burden of you :- Doug.
Posted in Aging, Family, Poetry
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Explore this mystery
Explore this mystery at work in families & life: the wholeness we can bring by simply hearing one another :- Doug.
Posted in Conversation, Family, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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I work toward family wholeness.
I work toward family wholeness. :- Doug.
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I help pick up the pieces
I help pick up the pieces Find a home for the pieces Where do you want the pieces Of your life to find homes? I am your Estate I’m the salvager The stitcher and mender I’m your Estate :- Doug.
Posted in Estates: Administration & Probate, Family, Poetry
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The With-nesses of Long-Term Care:
The With-nesses of Long-Term Care: Disease partakes of the It Sickness has me Illness has us Still, we can have the Healing :- Doug.
Ripped apart
When Mom is pulled up by the roots Replanted in a nursing home We are ripped apart There is a hole in the garden Or we can see the garden wider Extending to the nursing home Fertilized by love What … Continue reading
Making our nursing home experience whole
We can make our family experience of nursing home and assisted living whole. We can spiral out and care for others to make their experience whole. Our country will not be made whole by compressing from borders in, but only … Continue reading
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“It really is so simple and easy to be close in Spirit”
A friend of mine, Mikk Sarv, from Estonia, while early in his own most personal grieving work, wrote “It is really so simple and easy to be close in Spirit.” How have you experienced this? I see it is about … Continue reading
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With Alzheimer’s the call is to
With Alzheimer’s, the call for separation and individualism is gone; our task now is to intertwine the sprouts and roots of family. :- Doug.