Archive for January, 2011

Whole-Making is how I choose to practice law.

Whole-Making is how I choose to practice law.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 31st, 2011 | No Comments »

What are you up to? How have you lifted your sights?

What are you up to? How have you lifted your sights?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 31st, 2011 | No Comments »

What I’m up to is Whole-In-Law!

What I’m up to is Whole-In-Law!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 31st, 2011 | No Comments »

A society of distinction

We live in a society of distinction. We distinguish things and people in ways no longer visible to us. We distinguish black from white from brown from yellow. We distinguish male from female, high income from low income, safe neighborhoods from poor ones, expensive cars from old beaters, those who fail to signal (rude) and those who drive too slowly (inconsiderate) from ourselves (kind, gentle and caring). If we were to invite them all to a party and mix them together, we would be seen as crazy or even subversive. Yet this is the story Jesus told.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 30th, 2011 | No Comments »

What is the most loving way to practice Elder Care Law?

What is the most loving way to practice Elder Care Law?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 30th, 2011 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1124–Something’s at stake

Footprints in the Windsm # 1124

Something’s at stake
a little thing done
a hurtful or kind word
& the world stumbles & falls
irretrievably
or stands & walks to run


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on January 29th, 2011 | No Comments »

Help the melting

Together you are the salt of the earth: The world about us is icy, throw on your salt, help the melting!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 29th, 2011 | No Comments »

You’re the same age as those going into nursing homes

You’re the same age as your friends going into nursing homes. You know things about them, what they like, jokes they get, what you and they lived through: things their kids—another generation—could never understand. Share those things. Love does.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 29th, 2011 | No Comments »

How go deeper with Dad in Alzheimer’s?

How do we get to the deeper with a elder, say in an Alzheimer’s setting? What do they love, what did they love, what would make them more comfortable? Brandy on the gums, a grandchild’s hug, a song to sing, a touch on the hand. Our memory touching theirs, sparking theirs. Our moving into their world, with their world. A conversation about…what is on their heart, without shushing, with a lot of “Say more about that, Dad.” Favorite foods, especially what’s not good for them are what’s really good for them: pork chops with greasy gravy, chocolate, ice cream. A baby doll or a wiggly puppy to hold and care for. Flowering plants to tend, not cut flowers to die too soon (what can those possibly say to one in their setting?). What does love do? Do that.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 29th, 2011 | No Comments »

the quiet ones

The people who usually jump to speak
usually do jump to speak
the quiet ones
usually remain quiet
yet we need their thinking with us too.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 29th, 2011 | No Comments »

Those who did not sing

Those who did not speak
Those who did not sing
May, if we consent,
Yet have voice through ours

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 28th, 2011 | No Comments »

Eye alone sees not whole

Eye alone sees not whole—
we look about us
far as the eye does see
the earth is flat
those stars are there now
people around us are separate
—wholeness requires imagination

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 28th, 2011 | No Comments »

Wintering maple

Wintering maple
Birds, thoughts dart in its branches
Do birds flit, or tree?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 28th, 2011 | No Comments »

Nursing homes are not mostly about money and disease:

Let’s help our family think together about ways to live more fully as family. Nursing homes are not storage bins; long-term care is not all or even mostly about money and disease: these are places people live, and we can live more. Here. Hear.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 27th, 2011 | No Comments »

The question of the cost of nursing homes….

The question of nursing homes and their cost is at base a question of relieving worries and opening the family to moving beyond money to meaning.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 27th, 2011 | No Comments »

How can you help your family be family?

How can you help your family be family? To live the possibilities open to you?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 27th, 2011 | No Comments »

if you/would live/…

Change heart
& vision
if you
would live

coins, numbers
too cold
life will
be hard
if you
would live

dusty, hard-
packed soil
only this
hoe to
work it
if you
would live

sweat, live
America

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 27th, 2011 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1123–Remind people

Footprints in the Windsm # 1123

Remind people of their goodness.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on January 26th, 2011 | No Comments »

Lift our hearts to the dignity we give our heads.

Lift our hearts to the dignity we give our heads.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 26th, 2011 | No Comments »

Words

Words
Many
Too

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 26th, 2011 | No Comments »

This is

This is Heaven
This is Hell
And you choose When,
Where now to dwell

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 26th, 2011 | No Comments »

If you have eyes, it’s plain.

Do you understand? If you have eyes, it’s plain.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 26th, 2011 | No Comments »

Circle of family

Circle of family
in our beginning
dysfunction? broken?
or simply our reality?
maybe the norm?
see here a rabbit hole of escape
we have supermarket thinking
maybe there is something better
on the next shelf
never can we escape our own life
we ever carry it with us
the stream of our life is one
we come out again
in the same woods we left
to find if we look in time
the light was in the woods
all along
filtered sun
and fireflies

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 25th, 2011 | No Comments »
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