Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness

What worlds create?

With a Will What worlds Can we Create? What ideals Now populate? What hearts Evocate? :- Doug.

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families come together

Good happens when families come together :- Doug.

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Your Will is not for ever

Your Will is not for ever —Re-read every two years Your love is not said and done —Repeat often :- Doug.

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You’ve lived through 65 years

Listen! You’ve lived through 65 years. You’ve earned the right to be compassionate. :- Doug.

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Sickness Doctors and Wellness Lawyers

We see our physicians as sickness doctors. What an absolute difficult thing it would be for us to turn that around and think of them as wellness doctors. Our whole society thinks this way, patients and doctors, insurance people and … Continue reading

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Our whole work is conversation.

Our whole work is conversation. Whole, as in rounded, full, complete, healing. Our, as in each person on this globe. Conversation, meaning turning with, a picture of dancing, and a picture of turning over a compost heap to keep it … Continue reading

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Crotchety is okety-fine

Crotchety is okety-fine when conversing: just stand clear of our itty bitty egoity keep to our universality! :- Doug.

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Working on my compassion

I am working on my compassion. :- Doug.

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Caring is compassion

Care can be a commercial transaction. Caring is compassion. :- Doug.

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Doctors may become mere technicians

I’m hearing from my elder clients’ children that they cannot get a time to talk with the doctor about what is going on with their parent, what the prognosis might be, and what the best course of treatment ought to … Continue reading

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Elders, doctors and consults

A few days ago I learned that doctors are in some settings expected to see 40 patients a day. What’s the math on 40 patients in a day? Today I spoke with a couple of therapists about getting the doctor … Continue reading

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Divine are the snowflakes/…

Divine are the snowflakes dancing, floating, flying divine is each each faces me and asks do you see me? :- Doug.

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The phone starts ringing

When somebody dies, the phone starts ringing. But when somebody lives, what attention do we pay? :- Doug.

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Our whole work

Our whole work is conversing, engaging, encountering, meeting: our whole work is bringing us to whole, our whole work is whole-making, whole-realizing. Our whole work is conversing. :- Doug.

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New tool: What’s your prognosis?

Friends– GeriPal.org has posted a combination electronic tool for doctors and other clinicians to use to get an idea about how long you or Mom or Dad might live, given your health and a number of other factors. You might … Continue reading

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Heart and hearing

What I bring to my clients, to the law: sensitivity and caring: heart and hearing. These two things. :- Doug.

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On not missing death

Death is something I for now think I do not want to miss. I do not want to be on morphine or other substance to make me sleep through death. I want to be thoroughly alert. For I suspect there … Continue reading

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