Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness
Expectancy?
Do you have a life expectancy Or an expectancy of life? :- Doug.
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If I see my role as healer–
If I see my role as healer— it means I listen more I hope it means I hear more for more is in these hearts ready to come to voice from coeur can come spreading roots, engaging roots, living roots, … Continue reading
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What is my work as a lawyer?
What is my work as a lawyer? I am getting the inkling it is about whole-making, about bringing the family of humankind to a larger wholeness, completeness, fullness. It is not about solving problems but about living life. :- Doug.
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We are not broken
Of course people come to us lawyers with problems, but they do not want to be here. I want to turn the coin over and look at what can we do to make wholeness. Let’s reel in toward wholeness, let’s … Continue reading
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If meaning in life/is direction of days
If meaning in life is direction of days we can be here now for destination is not assured but each now we choose our heading We think the person with Alzheimer’s slips away from us sadly but could he, could … Continue reading
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Healing in nursing homes
What is healing in the nursing home? What is whole-making for an elder? :- Doug.
Explore this mystery
Explore this mystery at work in families & life: the wholeness we can bring by simply hearing one another :- Doug.
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I work toward family wholeness.
I work toward family wholeness. :- Doug.
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The proper work of this lawyer
It is the proper work of this lawyer to invite people to grow human together. The classic professions were medicine, helping humans with their relationship to their bodies, clergy, helping humans with their relationship to their God, and law, helping … Continue reading
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The With-nesses of Long-Term Care:
The With-nesses of Long-Term Care: Disease partakes of the It Sickness has me Illness has us Still, we can have the Healing :- Doug.
Ripped apart
When Mom is pulled up by the roots Replanted in a nursing home We are ripped apart There is a hole in the garden Or we can see the garden wider Extending to the nursing home Fertilized by love What … Continue reading
Making our nursing home experience whole
We can make our family experience of nursing home and assisted living whole. We can spiral out and care for others to make their experience whole. Our country will not be made whole by compressing from borders in, but only … Continue reading
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The sacred among us
This work is about what is sacred among us. Can we recognize the sacred among us? Even in law, in our own family, in nursing homes, in declining elders? What is that sacred? Is it not the love? Is it … Continue reading
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“It really is so simple and easy to be close in Spirit”
A friend of mine, Mikk Sarv, from Estonia, while early in his own most personal grieving work, wrote “It is really so simple and easy to be close in Spirit.” How have you experienced this? I see it is about … Continue reading
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With Alzheimer’s the call is to
With Alzheimer’s, the call for separation and individualism is gone; our task now is to intertwine the sprouts and roots of family. :- Doug.
What is the most loving way to practice Elder Caring Law?
What do you think is the most loving way to practice Elder Caring Law? What can we do to be open, imaginative, caring, poetic, whole-making and loving for your family? Please submit your responses and comments below. Thanks! :- Doug.
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