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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 then can be for us
The new life
The new whole
Can we dare think
The new flowering?

:- Doug.

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 from hands and hearts reaching out, bringing in.

:- Doug.

Whole-making: is this justice? It is certainly compassion, so yes.

:- Doug.

Love would make the peoples whole if we let it, if we try.

:- Doug.

What of the poor, the frail, the fragile? They have no more strength for anything outside themselves: perhaps. But what can they do? What do they do? They can love: they can turn outwards. Turning outward reverses the flow of disease. Love makes whole.

:- Doug.