Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness

good!

Make good! :- Doug.

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compare

Do not compare yourself with another. :- Doug.

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favorite courting music?

What was your favorite kind of music when you were courting? :- Doug.

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My long suit

My long suit is long, deepening conversation. :- Doug.

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share hearts

This is a work that lets me share my heart. :- Doug.

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Alive inside Alzheimer’s

Started watching a video last night called “Alive Inside.” It is about music and memory, using music on ipods to awaken folks who have turned inside with dementia and Alzheimer’s. Some top people are interviewed and some science is shared, … Continue reading

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Grandpa in a pile of kids

This Grandpa loves to get on the floor in a pile with kids and tickle, wrestle, hug. Unknown to any of us—certainly to me for many years—there is here a message. We are one. We are. There is joy here. … Continue reading

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You can have a great heart

You can have a great heart here. :- Doug.

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can we trust

can we trust one another to meet all our needs? :- Doug.

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You can’t know what you need to know

You can’t know what you need to know you’ll learn along the way or you’ll have to make it up :- Doug.

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when we must cry

Let us teach each other how to live when we must cry :- Doug.

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Only to hug

Only grab on to others to hug. :- Doug.

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more effective in our family?

How can we become more effective in our family inter-relating on behalf of our elders—and our family as a whole? :- Doug.

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a thousand of ’em

You have a thousand third choices. :- Doug.

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third choices are all about

The third choices are all about living while you live. :- Doug.

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Law’s essence

Law’s essence is the relationships among us. :- Doug.

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Bigger is not always better I learned

Bigger is not always better, I learned from a kidney stone. :- Doug.

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