Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness
Befriending Mom: beyond ADLs and IADLs
Ω 936 Truth: You’ve heard of ADLs and maybe IADLs; let’s look beyond. Activities of Daily Living refer to bathing, dressing, eating, and the like—the basic stuff of life. This is what the ancients called Truth: can you do the … Continue reading
only detours
only detours can take us somewhere new there are only detours every detour leads to questions life is carried in the belly of questions every detour leads to another every new home engenders new life :- Doug.
I invite I imagine I engage
I invite I imagine I engage :- Doug.
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We free the body of its tasks
We free the body of its tasks We free the spirit to works within :- Doug.
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A paradox as we age:
A paradox as we age: We discard the unessential Yet we grow, take in panoramas :- Doug.
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What does bringing our authentic sevles mean as we age?
What does bringing out our authentic selves mean as we age? As we peel away the layers, the roles, the masks Does this question become more urgent? And what of our friends who are there and no longer there? Some … Continue reading
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My work is discontinuity
My work is discontinuity of future to past and present of possibility to despair :- Doug.
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Geniuses, lovers, angels
Geniuses, lovers, angels I see in the faces before me Some days more apparent than others :- Doug.
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Playfully the lawyer
Playfully the lawyer re-spins the tale that this family might own a livelier theme :- Doug.
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Exploring, playing, teasing, sweating
Exploring, playing, teasing, sweating This human, this lawyer shifts the shape of our story Shifts the direction of our family :- Doug.
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Shifting the shape of the story
Their story retold The family unfold Shifting the shape of the story Shifts the shape of the world Story is us :- Doug.
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This quilt is made of story
This quilt is made of story One story many patches O that glimpses were larger A few wrinkles smoothed Our stories retold Our family unfold Shifting the shape of our story Is the core of The healer, the human, The … Continue reading
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Open out! Open out!
Open out! Open out! The bigger the story The bigger the people Hear, take in, let emerge Others—our—parts of the story It’s the only way We grow a bigger future :- Doug.
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family renews
As the story renews the family renews :- Doug.
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Our family holds a story:
Our family holds a story: a stroke, trach tube, speech gone, crisis, must pull together, but years ago harsh words, hard to stitch this rent fabric Holding our breath we consult a lawyer the lawyer has no silver needle only … Continue reading