Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness
Something to give, something to receive
Elder Caring Law is about the proposition that everybody has something to give, and something to receive. In giving love we receive something. Even when it seems we are being fought, there is a bit of peace hiding there somewhere, … Continue reading
gather a healthy family?
What does it mean to gather a healthy family around an elder? :- Doug.
Whole-in-Law
What I’m up to is Whole-In-Law! :- Doug.
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The question of nursing homes
The question of nursing homes and their cost is at base a question of relieving worries and opening the family to moving beyond money to meaning. :- Doug.
don’t know where this is going
I don’t know where this is going to take us. I know that your objection or detour is an important part of where we need to go. I need to go to some place deeper with this, for if we … Continue reading
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the boundaries between us
It’s not the boundaries between us help us grow. :- Doug.
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forgetting what I planned to say
Our strength is in our weaknesses so mine might be in lost words forgetting what I planned to say in midst not beyond :- Doug.
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I’m old, growing
I’m old, growing. :- Doug.
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an old friend
It’s not unsafe to acknowledge a stranger across the room as an old friend. :- Doug.
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we set fruit
We flower, we leaf, we set fruit we shed our leaves, our seeds sprout we wither, we die, we go on :- Doug.
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Where the tunnels intersect
Deeper is where the tunnels intersect. :- Doug.
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make whole?
What does it mean to make whole? :- Doug.
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Nurses, CNAs, doctors, and social workers
Nurses, CNAs, doctors, and social workers find their higher callings to help being quashed by greed thinking. We can stand up for them by speaking truth to power, but even more directly by letting them see their own creative powers … Continue reading
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now the process has become visible to us
Persons grow out of meeting: meeting-relation is the primary thing and the persons secondary and generated. What this leads me to is that the person is not the brain, the brain is not the person, and that more fundamental than … Continue reading
Cheshire cat
It is the relationship—the meeting—which is real, the genesis of self and same. Self and same are the same word. All stems from meeting, like the smile of the Cheshire cat, last to go, first to come. So too person … Continue reading
my life day
This is my life day —shouldn’t they all be?— a day in which I will live freely :- Doug.
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