Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness

Condor from out of nowhere

But you have a much larger gift you can give, or at least offer. However it will cost you. It will be a condor from out of nowhere sinking its talons into you, carrying you away, over the abyss. You … Continue reading

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Poetry making helps

Poetry making might help you with something as surface as marketing or as deepening as your relationship to humanity and all mystery. :- Doug.

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Pain comes from expectations

Pain comes from expectations and from the extent by which we miss them. :- Doug.

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A scalpel does not reach

Technical excellence is not enough. It is never enough. There is a place that excellence, our scalpel, does not reach, cannot cut. A place in each client. A place in us too. A place even our words cannot touch. A … Continue reading

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Poets you and I

Beyond wisdom poets—you and I— are making meaning :- Doug.

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The communion stands

The communion only stands a chance if at least one of us moves toward our together. :- Doug.

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To soak in another

You look to see You listen to hear To soak in one another :- Doug.

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Ground beneath the mountain

Turning as we go around the hill corresponds to simple aging. Occasionally stopping at the scenic overlook corresponds to eldering. Ahh, but the ground beneath the mountain! This corresponds to ancestoring. :- Doug.

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Good to reflect

It is good to reflect. :- Doug.

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through the last breath

The soul has work to do right through the very last breath. :- Doug.

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as if it mattered

Dying as if it mattered :- Doug.

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Sacred dying

Sacred dying :- Doug.

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Be tender

Do healthy Be tender Think deeply :- Doug.

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Life for Dad?

What is better quality of life for Dad? :- Doug.

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Except it is

You imagine something It isn’t really happening Except it is—in your mind :- Doug.

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Do healthy

Do healthy. Keep loving. Reflect. :- Doug.

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We rely each

We rely each upon the we :- Doug.

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