Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness

Better is together

The only way we make things better is together. :- Doug.

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Home is the place

Home is the place where especially we the broken can be accepted as whole and as the best the world owns. home is whole-making is home :- Doug.

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Your heart has always

What are the conversations your heart has always desired? What are you waiting for? :- Doug.

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Restoration to ease

Restoration to the ease of a body of 40 or even 30 is not possible for a body of 80 growing translucent. It may not even be desirable. But healing—wholeness—is possible and desirable. :- Doug.

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The important thing is a story

The important thing is a story. Even in meeting, what is important is the story: the story we learn of the other, the story we make together. Story is of action, and of meaning, and of courage for the hearer … Continue reading

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& I took the path…

& I, I took the path, thought I, less traveled by as if that made all the difference but difference I learned is not the truth, does not exist what exists is our connection to the whole each of us … Continue reading

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To make us disappear

To make us disappear To live toward our death This is what we are about Every day & month & year Not fearing but courting When we seek to be part To fit in, to have faith & esprit de … Continue reading

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Unhappily

No one wants to die unhappily. And yet, sometimes we force this on each other. :- Doug.

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Gathering, stitching

Gathering Stitching Rags & tags Into a whole Not so crazy quilt An opus Of our eldering :- Doug.

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Cuddly lawyer

I’m a lawyer of the soft, cuddly, tender, gentle, kindly, mild, openhearted, large hearted, easy variety. :- Doug.

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My job is to shake up

My job is to shake up a bit those folks under my care to get them to do good for their family, their community, and themselves. :- Doug.

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What is the pattern of our family?

What is the pattern of our family? :- Doug.

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Medicine is

Medicine is a friend touching your hand in the hospital, a doctor kindly telling you it is OK to say good-bye to your husband, another doctor saying people only die because I do not know enough to keep them alive. … Continue reading

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Don’t make me fight

Don’t make me fight when I don’t want to anymore. :- Doug.

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The velocity of our lives

We can know velocity of our lives and our financial position and our direction, but at most two at a given time: the third will be undefinable. :- Doug.

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Living until we die?

How then shall we live until we die? How shall we die as we live? Does dying have to be a separate thing, even with its mystery? :- Doug.

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What do we mean by “burden?”

What do we mean by “burden?” Can we put a picture to it? Do we mean divorcing ourselves from our children’s lives? Ripping ourselves out like weeds from the garden? :- Doug.

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