Archive for March, 2012

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.

Published in: Conversations | on March 31st, 2012 | No Comments »

Playing with boundaries

The government in Medicaid and similar programs must play within boundaries; families may play with boundaries.

:- Doug.

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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.

Published in: Conversations | on March 31st, 2012 | No Comments »

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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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on March 31st, 2012 | No Comments »

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.

Published in: Conversations | on March 31st, 2012 | No Comments »

Keep life and family in play

It is the purpose of Elder Caring Law to keep life and family in play.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 31st, 2012 | No Comments »

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.

Published in: Conversations | on March 30th, 2012 | No Comments »

I work for the elders of our tribe.

I work for the elders of our tribe.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 30th, 2012 | No Comments »

Elders who are caring

Elders who are caring
About their families, future & world
Are the ones for whom we work

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 30th, 2012 | No Comments »

Elders SAT

We encourage elders to not sit, but SAT; Speak, Act, and Think originally.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 30th, 2012 | No Comments »

Open reciprocity

The practice is about open reciprocity. We have some answers; you have others: together we paint the future.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 30th, 2012 | No Comments »

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.

Published in: Conversations | on March 29th, 2012 | No Comments »

Eldering within families

The vision of eldering within families that animates our practice is continuity and open-endedness.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 29th, 2012 | No Comments »

Law at play

We move beyond law as business to law at play.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 29th, 2012 | No Comments »

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.

Published in: Conversations | on March 29th, 2012 | No Comments »

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.

Published in: Conversations | on March 29th, 2012 | No Comments »

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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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on March 28th, 2012 | No Comments »

The bigger job of Wills?

What is the bigger job of Wills, Estates, and Powers of Attorney, if not loving well?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 28th, 2012 | No Comments »

A flowing, a flower!

God seems to me a flowing
more than a string-puller:
Flowing,
God flows,
A flower!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 28th, 2012 | No Comments »

How shall we elder today?

How shall we elder today?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 28th, 2012 | No Comments »

die gently?

How can we live well to the end and die gently?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on March 28th, 2012 | No Comments »

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.

Published in: Conversations | on March 28th, 2012 | No Comments »

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.

Published in: Conversations | on March 27th, 2012 | No Comments »
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