You’re in the elder caring woods….
You’re on a path through the elder caring woods: seek out a guide, notice the stars above, and hold hands.
:- Doug.
Archive for March, 2012
Playing with boundaries
The government in Medicaid and similar programs must play within boundaries; families may play with boundaries.
:- Doug.
Changing the rules as we age….
We must change the rules of Elder Caring Law during the course of life, because we must keep in play life well lived and well completed.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1236–You do not die at the end
Footprints in the Windsm # 1236
You do not die at the end of your story, but in the course of it.
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Eliminate boundaries, open horizons
The effect of Elder Caring Law is to eliminate boundaries to life and finance and health: to open new horizons of time, connection, and wholeness.
:- Doug.
Keep life and family in play
It is the purpose of Elder Caring Law to keep life and family in play.
:- Doug.
This infinite game
Elder Caring Law for me is about playing an infinite game with my clients, the infinite game of life and the purpose is to keep on playing it.
:- Doug.
Elders who are caring
Elders who are caring
About their families, future & world
Are the ones for whom we work
:- Doug.
Open reciprocity
The practice is about open reciprocity. We have some answers; you have others: together we paint the future.
:- Doug.
Eldering is mixing it up with the future….
Eldering is about taking action and mixing it up with the future, not passively taking what it dishes out.
:- Doug.
Eldering within families
The vision of eldering within families that animates our practice is continuity and open-endedness.
:- Doug.
Much novelty emerges from where we are placed
Much novelty arises because of where we are placed, who we are next to, how we interact, Surprise happens. Sometimes it is called miracle. Conversing invites surprise. Put together hydrogen and oxygen and you get…wet! Surprise! Carefully now: turn to your neighbor and converse.
:- Doug.
In a game with winners and losers, all lose
If you create a game with winners and losers, everybody loses simply because not everybody wins.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1235–Very early spring
Footprints in the Windsm # 1235
We’ve had a very early spring this time around—it started in November.
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The bigger job of Wills?
What is the bigger job of Wills, Estates, and Powers of Attorney, if not loving well?
:- Doug.
A flowing, a flower!
God seems to me a flowing
more than a string-puller:
Flowing,
God flows,
A flower!
:- Doug.
Pointing to his chest he said
Pointing to his chest he said “Here,” then turning his palm up and moving it left to right “and there,” pausing… “is our life, our divinity…not to be held, but got to work.”
:- Doug.
We cannot cure death
We cannot cure death
Yet we act as though we could
Or as if we wished we could
Yet if we see death not as end
But as a chapter
We might write it well
Live it artfully
:- Doug.
