Category Archives: Grieving

Where are you in your grieving?

Where are you in your grieving? How has grieving touched you? What is going on in your grieving now? :- Doug.

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Then comes another

What results are ever final? Then comes another season. :- Doug.

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You are afraid

You are afraid of opening yourself to grief, suffering, loss, to all the negative our world can make: because all is parcel of all these include living’s joy and intensity go and open anyway :- Doug.

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Beyond shoulder’s range

Beyond shoulder’s range Hearing funeral sobs We weep Distance immaterial To touch :- Doug.

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when we must cry

Let us teach each other how to live when we must cry :- Doug.

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Hear me, O hear me!

Hear me, O hear me! Into agreement One minute in a circle Let us hear What each needs To have heard Love pain grief & laughter :- Doug.

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History rewritten

History can be rewritten the next chapter. :- Doug.

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Attention the lens

Attention may be the lens that shows us grief, pain, hate, and love, wholeness, inclusion. :- Doug.

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Even that

Even that Let go :- Doug.

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We create our deaths

We create our lives by what we say about them to one another. We do this by laws, social conventions, our own words and actions. In the same way we create our deaths. What death do you want? What death … Continue reading

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Loss

All change requires loss Great change requires great loss What cost will we consciously pay? Firm ground vanishes We step into the void The price demands something we clutch Or we see nothing more precious :- Doug.

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Remember me

Remember me with a simile :- Doug.

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The final frontier?

Death: the final frontier. :- Doug.

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This can be a good thing

This can be a good thing. :- Doug.

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only detours

only detours can take us somewhere new there are only detours every detour leads to questions life is carried in the belly of questions every detour leads to another every new home engenders new life :- Doug.

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As if sadness

We ask “What’s wrong?” As if sadness were wrong :- Doug.

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First, let life through

First, let life through. :- Doug.

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