Archive for March, 2013

Who here cares how people die?

Who here cares how people die?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 31st, 2013 | No Comments »

“California daughters?”

What if we invited a room full of “California Daughters” to talk about end of life care for Mom and Dad?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 31st, 2013 | No Comments »

Local data?

How can we collect good and bad death data from local hospitals and nursing homes?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 31st, 2013 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1315–We cannot alone hope to make the decisive move

Footprints in the Windsm # 1315

We cannot alone hope to make
the decisive move
The tragedies humans are
bringing our way
are too entangled
We can but write a word,
plant a tree,
start a conversation
We have lost the right to hope
for an outcome
Now we must hope
with a new quality


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on March 30th, 2013 | No Comments »

A swirl of name-words

There is a swirl of name-words
A circle, a spiral
Divinity, Love, Life…
Shot through
This our one-story world

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 30th, 2013 | No Comments »

A place for practical peace

How do you want to die? This goes deeper than Where and With whom? What is important about dying: fighting all the way? Not for me and I suspect for most folks. Going gently, comfortably, without violence, without strife. Here is a place for practical peace.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 30th, 2013 | No Comments »

Is dying simple, complicated, or complex?

Is how we get to die simple, complicated, or complex? So, should our response, our thinking ahead, match?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 29th, 2013 | No Comments »

Prepared for any death?

Can we be prepared for any—our—death? What then to do?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 29th, 2013 | No Comments »

What’s to hope for?

What’s to hope for? How does our society view death? Is death always bad?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 28th, 2013 | No Comments »

I represent dying people…to you

I represent dying people…to you
I represent your mother, father, sister, husband, wife
I represent the older you to you
Generations of dying people—us
To us
Asking us to consider what is a good death
& how we can get more of us there
When it is our turn

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 28th, 2013 | No Comments »

Someone who died well….

Tell us a story of someone who died well…. Tell us what the people around that person did to help make it good.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 27th, 2013 | No Comments »

If life’s uncertain

If life’s uncertain
we can take the chance

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 27th, 2013 | No Comments »

That life may flourish

Through you that life may flourish

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 26th, 2013 | No Comments »

Can you identify these elders?

I need your help to identify elders who bring wisdom and a longer view to those around them and the world….

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 26th, 2013 | No Comments »

What is Heaven:

I’ll tell you what is Heaven:
It is “The Music of the Night” in Phantom of the Opera
It is the caress of a lover or a mother
It is a hug around the neck by a 4-year-old
It is a tearful happy funeral
It is all around us
If we open to it

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 25th, 2013 | No Comments »

We cannot fail

We cannot fail because we refuse to commit our souls to outcomes. Instead, we work for the possibility of loving.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 25th, 2013 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1314–From gathering to loosening

Footprints in the Windsm # 1314

In inviting
and freeing
and calling home
the One says
Let there be inclusivity
and dreaming big dreams
give to all sustenance
tomorrows without debt
worlds of whole-making conversing
for this is a
fertile can-do-dom
powerful loving
and glorious singing
from gathering to loosening!


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on March 24th, 2013 | No Comments »

drawing out our largeness

* is about
our everyday
surprise & creativity
beyond picturing
loving the immeasurable
doing the unpredictable
universal deepening
nuance
calling out our madness
being weak with us
loving
observing larger
drawing out our largeness

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 24th, 2013 | No Comments »

This business of theology

This business of theology is to come up with a picture of the logic of God. Yet, the task is impossible: God wants no image made; any picture is a construct of the variegated human mind so no final picture is possible; God is ever larger than any work. And yet this work has chosen me.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 24th, 2013 | No Comments »

& all this movement

We move apart
We move together
A respiration
& all this movement
in relation
this together has a name
*

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 24th, 2013 | No Comments »

My job is not to make the symphony

My job is not to make the symphony
only to play my instrument
Our job is not to make the vision happen
only to play our role

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 24th, 2013 | No Comments »

* might be seen as self

* might be seen as self
a conscious stream flowing
over mountain rocks
& lowland fields
& milky surges of stars above
seeking the best for—loving—
each of its plenitude of drops
& rivulets & bursting buds
more than—and even—a collective
conversing of many currents
in dreams & visions catching dew
& grain of sand & sidereal speck
to carry us along

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 23rd, 2013 | No Comments »

Can we live without hope–

Can we live without hope—
That is, with a
Different kind of hope?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 23rd, 2013 | No Comments »
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