Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness
I make poetry because
I make poetry because— life loves me and I love life something alive needs to be shared the all there is matters deeply to me —My feet and hands jangle :- Doug.
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Don’t look at how much money this long-term care strategy will save you
Don’t look at how much money this long-term care strategy will save you; rather how much life is engendered: life in food and shelter for Mom, life in providing for her husband and children, life in the lessons she can … Continue reading
Keep grinding away at your nose
You can keep grinding away at your nose till finally your brain is worn away. :- Doug.
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Get wiser together
Come, let us sit and get wiser together. :- Doug.
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serious attention to our ripening
It is absolutely necessary —our society needs us to work on what only we only now can find and create— to devote serious attention to our ripening in aging —and in dying :- Doug.
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let’s try this on again
A heart available vulnerable lost let’s try this on again :- Doug.
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Walk lost
This is the deeper level of practicing law with this one walk lost :- Doug.
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You my parents and grandparents
A thread of life there runs from you my parents and grandparents back through eons of eons through me to you my children and grandchildren on forward eons of eons it counts for us as immortality ’tis up to me … Continue reading
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When I’m 95
In every way that matters When I’m 95 When you’re 95 We will see In every way that matters We are just like each other Let’s start now :- Doug.
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Conversation is not words
Conversation is not words rather an exchange of being poetry flowing :- Doug.
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This circus belongs
This circus belongs to us clowns and elephants greasepaint and canvas laughter and applaudable unreality this much is real: you belong to me, I to you and the whole world one belongs to us :- Doug.
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Among us
Among us wholeness moves Totally present Absolutely invisible :- Doug.
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Pieces of our own lives
We pay for the care we give our loved ones with pieces of our own lives. :- Doug.
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The family responsibility question
The family responsibility question (shall the law force daughter and son to pay for their parents’ nursing home?) really points up the fact that the kind of care we get is a commercial transaction, and one of choices we make. … Continue reading
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The crisis can be good
The crisis can be good. The crisis in health care of which we are only now catching contours—the slashed budgets, the cost containments—can be good. Someone might (unexpectedly—really?) ask, What are we actually about? Is the only way through, more … Continue reading
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