Category Archives: Professional Caregivers
A Google lawyer
Are you Google knowing without knowing Are you a Google lawyer knowing answers and hows lively and responsive without touching All those years lived without living All those lives you have strummed without having the chords reverberate to your spine … Continue reading
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Looking glass room
As elder caring lawyers we are privileged witnesses. We also may find a profound responsibility to witness for our people. To mirror. To open. Maybe there is a different room over there on the other side of the looking glass. … Continue reading
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Condor from out of nowhere
But you have a much larger gift you can give, or at least offer. However it will cost you. It will be a condor from out of nowhere sinking its talons into you, carrying you away, over the abyss. You … Continue reading
Fog in the valley, nothing more
You have the gift of having seen this long-term care thing in many guises and appearances. You can see long view over their case, over their needs, and the outlines of where this will come out the other side. You … Continue reading
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Can lawyers “love?”
Can lawyers use the word “love?” Can lawyers love their clients? :- Doug.
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The practice of people
The practice of law is the practice of people. The practice of law is the practice of conversing. :- Doug.
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Poems, like clients
Think of a favorite client, one with whom you really relate: first find the most deeply human part of your client, that part with which you connect. Then radiate that connection outward: what do you like, what draws you? Sometimes … Continue reading
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Meet them there
People share with us their profound times: we owe it to them to meet them there. We are yet human. :- Doug.
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A scalpel does not reach
Technical excellence is not enough. It is never enough. There is a place that excellence, our scalpel, does not reach, cannot cut. A place in each client. A place in us too. A place even our words cannot touch. A … Continue reading
Steadiness in caring
When we might say “pressure,” let’s say “need for steadiness in caring.” It helps. :- Doug.
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My mind is broken
My mind is broken But my heart beats true :- Doug.
Do healthy
Do healthy. Keep loving. Reflect. :- Doug.
Getting you there
Getting you there :- Doug.
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Moving boulder up
Time is not the inventory; moving the boulder up the hill is. :- Doug.
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