Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness
How is this news?
We’re getting older. How is this news we can use? :- Doug.
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We are entering a profound age
We are entering a profound age. :- Doug.
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By this age
By this age we’re all walking wounded. We get to be real. :- Doug.
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To do profound things
The move into elder caring has afforded me opportunities to do profound things: for instance, be present to life and death questions. Also to be my real self: I can be caring and pause to let others sink in. :- … Continue reading
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Let three breaths settle
Can we let three breaths settle in us before we respond to another? Otherwise this is going too fast for us. :- Doug.
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Is my heart at war?
Is my heart at war? A longer view could release The butterfly’s wings :- Doug.
Brain choices:
Brain choices: A few hints that our brain is not functioning as before, and we worry these are signs of our impending dementia; each example gets us buying the notion we are slipping; we become depressed and don’t tell anyone; … Continue reading
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Safety is not the main thing in elder caring:
Safety is not the main thing in elder caring: love is. :- Doug.
As much as they help
As much as they help words get in the way of our conversation :- Doug.
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To live well
Here the purpose is To live well Together Where can we Say this See this Today? :- Doug.
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Why’d we do such things to them?
Our grandchildren’s grandchildren are unreal to us or why’d we do such things to them? Our time horizons are very short: tomorrow, next vacation, maybe at most some someday retirement. Always centered in “me” and “mine.” Visiting the Alamo one … Continue reading
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We of the young and old
We of the young look for the bottom line of the old person, our managers see only their form. We of the old have gone, some of us, beyond to formless, bottomless. This can confuse those of us still young. … Continue reading
Rhythms in a nursing home
There are rhythms of life in say a nursing home. The rhythms are like languages where people cannot understand one another. There is the long flowing beat of the older, the staccato of the staff. :- Doug.
Seeing our blindness
We are blind and do not—perhaps cannot—see our blindness. :- Doug.
Opportunities in making a Will
What are your opportunities in making a Will and testament? To get rid of, to pass along wisdom, to connect generations, to proselytize? What are the profane uses, the sacred? :- Doug.
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