Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness
Intensive care helps us live longer?
We tend to think more intensive care helps us live longer. Statistics suggest that may not be the case. Beyond that, we might not even know what we mean by living. :- Doug.
Lamenting the younger generation
A friend was lamenting the younger generation not accepting our wisdom. No, and they won’t get our wisdom (neither receive nor comprehend nor apprehend). They will have to make up their own as they go along. It is the way … Continue reading
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Out beside
I cannot have a handle on you But I can camp out beside :- Doug.
People feeling unsurd
The root of our problems is People feeling unsurd and unheen :- Doug.
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Suffer from Alzheimer’s?
Can people who have Alzheimer’s Disease suffer from it? Surely those around them do, and surely this person experiences pain. Pain is part of the human daily condition. But suffering is optional. We might wonder if, without memory of the … Continue reading
Conflict is always about something else
Conflict is always about something else. :- Doug.
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When we could have been
Much of what we do is unthinking forgetting to engage our profundity and collateral effects detector So that if we think to promise Mom no nursing home we ought think about her sitting helplessly watching us kill ourselves While we … Continue reading
Don’t promise me no nursing homes
Please don’t promise me to never put me in a nursing home Instead, take me to visit my old home bring from there my favorite things But do not kill yourself cleaning after me, picking up my weight, cajoling me … Continue reading
We create our deaths
We create our lives by what we say about them to one another. We do this by laws, social conventions, our own words and actions. In the same way we create our deaths. What death do you want? What death … Continue reading
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Law is love put into words
Law is love put into words Law is therefore the child of love :- Doug.
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Are nursing homes boring?
Are nursing homes boring? Do they cause people to be bored? Are they arranged for boredom? Do some people who refuse to be bored get labeled as “acting out,” “non compliant,” and get medicated for it? Is this boring arrangement … Continue reading