Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness

Discussing without conversing

Discussing without conversing is butterfly without flowers. :- Doug.

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Being done to

In a hospital you’re being done to, no questions please; in hospice you are doing, all questions welcome. :- Doug.

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Your heart, mind, body

What’s on your heart, mind, body? When you think about your end of life, do you feel it in some part of your body—your stomach, upper arms, feet? :- Doug.

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Earning a patina

Doctors propose to put you through something now to possibly give you more time later. This is a thought that fits middlers very well, but elders not so well. For elders living now earns a patina day by day. Hug … Continue reading

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Death is not failure

Failure is not death Death is not failure :- Doug.

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Old photos

Look at old photos, tell a story they trigger, sing some old songs which come to mind. :- Doug.

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Recall….

Recall a time when you expressed passion and vision. :- Doug.

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Edges of life

The 17 Caring Questions get at the edges of life. :- Doug.

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gives us back to life

Communion is what we have what we are given and thrust into in life what we resist and shrink from and what gives us back to life in times of grief and 9-11 and barn-raisings :- Doug.

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You are not that powerful

You are not that powerful Another’s pain is greater But not greater than your power of being with :- Doug.

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To give it power

To give it power Focus on your dis-ease :- Doug.

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Aches of aging are spiritual

For some of us aches of aging are spiritual for some of us grieving and loss are exercises a chance to do this work for all of us :- Doug.

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Plant a tree

If you would honor me, plant a tree for the wholeness of the next few generations. :- Doug.

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Touching one another’s lives

Touching lives. This may be what I saw when I wrote that sharing grief is humanity’s soul purpose. Touching one another’s lives. Allowing ourselves to be touched. Lives touching. Inextricably entwining. :- Doug.

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Love is work

Love is work Always with defect Always completing :- Doug.

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This is dying work

This is dying work This is work dying :- Doug.

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A difficult dying

A difficult dying can be brought on by physical symptoms or attempts to control symptoms. (Maybe they are spiritual work going on that we should not seek to control in the first place.) But also by psychological or spiritual suffering. … Continue reading

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