Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness
On probate and lawyers:
On probate and lawyers: Accept the assistance of another human being who seeks to ease the way for you. Muzzle not the ox who tramples grain for you—pay him or her for helping. Do not expect something for nothing—of such … Continue reading
Still living at your age?
We are still living at this age not because there is something for us to do; rather there is to love more opportunity given us. :- Doug.
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We can live until we die
We can live until we die giving receiving giving —a respiration :- Doug.
Posted in Family, Healing and Wholeness, Poetry
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Conversing about emergency medical decisions = loving
To have the conversation about emergency medical decisions is a loving thing to do—for them and for you. It makes their soul-searching easier when they are deciding for you, it allows them to know they are doing the last most … Continue reading
Hearing takes more effort than listening
Hearing takes more effort than listening Hearing draws a smaller circle —in us —of the other Hearing makes the other real to us & opens our heart Though this circle is smaller It serves the all by opening us out … Continue reading
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Is tells us Do
Is tells us Do Emergency! How do you make the best decisions for your loved one in a medical emergency? You need to converse. The conversation’s words do not give a recipe for what to do; we cannot cover every … Continue reading
It’s an emergency:
It’s an emergency: A nursing home administrator calls. The husband of a resident is demanding to take his wife home. The problem is that she needs 24-hour supervision because of her dementia. The problem is that the husband is soon … Continue reading
Stitching people together
Story is how we stitch people together. :- Doug. Story is how we
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Bringing heart to law
In our times, we are bringing heart to law. :- Doug.
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Feeling old is optional
Feeling old is optional for you, elder of fuller life :- Doug.
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Now can we
All our lives preparing our homework for jobs for weddings for parenthood for a new career for company for dinner but now we are 60 or 70 or 80 but now is it finally Now now can we live now … Continue reading
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business success can turn us
Our wanting can block & blur our richer selves business success can turn us from filling a world need to buying a new convertible a beautiful spouse & big parties with important people can keep us from seeing this little … Continue reading
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Quotation: the cords between people
Especially in this time of managed care, more emphasis seems to be placed upon medication and the quick amelioration of symptoms, short-term work and privatized, profit-making clinics, than upon the lovely and mysterious alchemy that comprises the cords between people, … Continue reading
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