Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness

with Dad?

What can we create with Dad? :- Doug.

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Enforced do nothing mode

Just researched a bit about expressive therapy: the use of music, art, and story telling to help folks with dementia have a higher quality life. For me I understand higher quality to mean more woven into life. This study says … Continue reading

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Silence is a massage

Silence is a massage Of brain, heart, and will :- Doug.

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Enjoying the world contributes

Enjoying the world contributes to improving it We take its measure, test its supposed limits :- Doug.

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Be strong enough to

Be strong enough to withhold your tongue. :- Doug.

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The final frontier?

Death: the final frontier. :- Doug.

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Just like the rest of us

Love them. They are little children in adult clothes, just like the rest of us. :- Doug.

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This can be a good thing

This can be a good thing. :- Doug.

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Change is scary

Change is scary if you’re the one changed change is also growth :- Doug.

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loving in new ways

Parents, children and spouse love each other in new ways in unexpected situations. :- Doug.

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Conversation is my fire

Conversation is my fire Conversation is of life The fire :- Doug.

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bury the dull

Attend your fire let the dull bury the dull :- Doug.

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At this end of your life?

What is the work you need to do at this end of your life?   Give or receive forgiveness   Say I love you   Thank   Say good-bye   Complete a relationship   Complete a work   Give a … Continue reading

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gambol!

Two birds each other chase Through the leaves Life extravagant exuberant life! :- Doug.

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Is to love

To live To meet Is to love :- Doug.

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At your age

At your age, have you done what you came here to do, yet? Have you sung your song, written your book, hugged enough? :- Doug.

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little children playing

What would become of us if there weren’t little children playing for us? :- Doug.

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