Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness
hospital-think!
You can do better than hospital-think! It is not right nor even salutary to concentrate 100% on disease; we need to concentrate on living. Escape the institution: help them elope! :- Doug.
warehouses to hotbeds
Let’s move retirement facilities from being warehouses to hotbeds of meaning and purpose. :- Doug.
Looking out over the valley
I was looking out over the valley from a different angle and could not see the mountain from here. :- Doug.
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like a rain shower
Standing in the woods earlier: it sounded like a rain shower. It was leaves falling! Comforting and spirit-lifting! :- Doug.
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More blessed than we
They are more blessed than we. They have offended us and have moved on. We are stuck in the hurt, the might have beens, the repair. We can choose to move on and be at peace. :- Doug.
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Even to this
We say everyone is connected. The way is via conversation. We cut off our relatedness when we choose not to converse. It’s not warm and cuddly—even most of the time—conversing can leave you feeling attacked or unworthy. Converse anyway. Open … Continue reading
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Only meet
Only meet. :- Doug.
A family’s tragedy
Tell us about a family’s tragedy you experienced some years ago. :- Doug.
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Your blessing?
Who could use your blessing? :- Doug.
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What of your garden?
What of your garden gives you life? :- Doug.
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Aging = growing
Aging = growing :- Doug.
Aging is no disease
Aging is no disease We older Can grow :- Doug.
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