Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness

Never noun

In point of fact, is a person a noun, a verb, an adverb, an adjective? In actual lived life a person cannot be a noun. A person: ever changing never known never noun :- Doug.

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Spiral performance

You have the vision. You do the thing. Perform it on earth for the people to see. A spiral. :- Doug.

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Wind blows where

The wind blows where it will Its from and to we know not Our lives leave but footprints in the wind :- Doug.

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People we like

We work with people we like. :- Doug.

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Hardest there is

This requires thinking—the hardest work there is. :- Doug.

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Worthy challenges

Life is worth its challenges. :- Doug.

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Hear beyond listening

Reflective hearing is of highest value. Hear beyond listening: take in, assimilate the other. Reflect: explore further this path. :- Doug.

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Garden for flourishing

Our work is to create better conditions for life. We are gardeners making an environment for flourishing. :- Doug.

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Is suffering intrinsic?

Joan Berzoff on Friday said suffering is intrinsic to dying. I ask if that is so. Or do we mistake the work, do we mistake arduous for suffering? Do we get in the way? :- Doug.

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Hear the lessons

Hence, a lot of thinking about what that transformation might be. My clients can guide me, ought to be the guides. But we can do more, much more for them, than simply the technical grunt work of the Medicaid application. … Continue reading

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Baker’s Implementing:

Baker’s Implementing. Baker seems to prompt things from me. Just this morning he spoke of the professional as transforming the client. This is a higher step than service and higher than experience: help the client to become better. :- Doug.

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No, I don’t do Wills

No, I don’t do Wills. Unless you mean counseling with people on how they might best help their family and community with what they leave behind—and especially how. :- Doug.

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What to do now?

What are your opinions and wishes for what to do now? :- Doug.

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This makes us human

Compassion is suffering with, and this makes us human. :- Doug.

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Needs we cannot

Feeling inadequate, overwhelmed, anxious, and the like are some of the harder parts of having a close one whose needs we cannot alleviate. :- Doug.

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Paper chasing whole

Does law have to be only paper chasing? How can we help people reach toward whole? Reach toward where they are and being whole here? :- Doug.

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Converse complete

Converse about what matters. Tell what is really going on. Educate in possible ways to forgive, be forgiven, thank, say farewell, say what needs to be complete. :- Doug.

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