Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness

You’re growing

If you’re living, you’re growing. :- Doug.

Posted in Aging, Death and living while dying, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry | Leave a comment

You can’t save your parents from death

You can’t save your parents from death. As your parents find there are things they can no longer do, you are also losing something—your adequacy. You have not the money, the time, the energy, the wits to do everything for … Continue reading

Posted in Aging, Caring, Conversation, Death and living while dying, Family, Healing and Wholeness, Long-Term Care and nursing homes | Leave a comment

Even old-old have ability

Even old-old have ability to be whole to do everything for them is to steal from them give less help than he or she needs :- Doug.

Posted in Aging, Caring, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry, Professional Caregivers | Leave a comment

Hinge generation

Another Country is telling me I am more a product of my times than I had realized. My desire to open up is in the time zone of the 60s, not of the 40s. So when clients tell me all … Continue reading

Posted in Aging, Eldering, Family, Healing and Wholeness | Leave a comment

Deeper mysteries await

Deeper mysteries await; no, pull at us In age they beckon us daily Fog to ignore or explore, either unknowing The end of all our spiraling Brings our true selves, home, relatives: Maybe; or simply life as it grows on … Continue reading

Posted in Aging, Family, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry | Leave a comment

A mystery of Alzheimer’s

There is a mystery of Alzheimer’s, perhaps to be lived into. :- Doug.

Posted in Alzheimer's and other dementias, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry | Leave a comment

a fully packed Nothing

A fully packed Nothing comes to the Great Ones of our tribe That is, to each of us paying attention :- Doug.

Posted in Eldering, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry | Leave a comment

bravery of the old-old

What bravery have old-old people shown you? Such as facing oncoming losses? :- Doug.

Posted in Aging, Eldering, Healing and Wholeness | Leave a comment

experiment

Our dreams serve to extend our life’s experiment :- Doug.

Posted in Dreams, Eldering, Healing and Wholeness | Leave a comment

no deeper than this

We have a bigger than our own want to fill—we each want to help. It is possible humanity goes no deeper than this. :- Doug.

Posted in Caring, Family, Healing and Wholeness | Leave a comment

What is the elder fun?

What is the elder fun of having a life of my own? of being complete in myself? enjoy myself enjoy those in my presence :- Doug.

Posted in Aging, Eldering, Family, Healing and Wholeness | Leave a comment

harvest of your life?

What does the harvest of your life look like? What is the harvest of your life? :- Doug.

Posted in Aging, Eldering, Healing and Wholeness | Leave a comment

The last years

The last years, our last things we do and say for and to each other—these I want to explore for our family and legal growth. :- Doug.

Posted in Aging, Caring, Death and living while dying, Family, Healing and Wholeness | Leave a comment

Loss is gain?

It is said in old age, Loss is gain. Has that proved true for you? :- Doug.

Posted in Aging, Eldering, Healing and Wholeness | Leave a comment

The same tasks as we age

We don’t all have the same tasks as we age, but we may have the same Work: to get to where we can see our wholeness. :- Doug.

Posted in Aging, Eldering, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry | Leave a comment

Non essential life

I help non essential life go on after nursing home. :- Doug.

Posted in Aging, Caring, Eldering, Healing and Wholeness | Leave a comment

Non ordinary existence

Why I have not been getting the message across: I have been trying to make it ordinary, make it make sense, make it fit within the everyday. Although it is everyday, and necessary to life, it is not the essential … Continue reading

Posted in Aging, Eldering, Healing and Wholeness | Leave a comment