For a bird
For a bird
For a squirrel
Is life hard,
or a lark?
I suspect
they’d consider
Life is life
:- Doug.
Archive for August, 2012
When we change our choices
When we change our choices, it is often that something new informs the criteria upon which we base our choices: our fundamentals have remained constant.
:- Doug.
Are we extending suffering?
When we seek to hold off death
are we extending suffering?
Do we increase the length of pain?
Could we increase what’s good in death?
What do we value?
Consciousness, control of pain,
interchange with family, friends,
spirituality, religion, music,
ritual, touch, nature?
:- Doug.
up from the ground
This morning abed
contemplating
my mind wandering, dreaming
Come back, come back
Come home, come home
I see snow flakes
roiling, rising
Up
up from the ground
up from our ground
here is home, here is home
:- Doug.
Is dying important?
Is dying important?
Is being born?
Is how we die important?
Important for what?
For whom?
:- Doug.
Dying well?
Do you know someone who died well? Do you know someone who was prevented from dying well?
:- Doug.
The clouds and the trees and the humans
The clouds and the trees and the humans have all come together for a world that works. Now things are out of sync and wobbly. It’s not that we are destroying nature, but that we are out-pacing evolution’s ability to meet us.
:- Doug.
Effortlessly the eagle wheels
Effortlessly the eagle wheels
Wings have found
A thermal lifting, lifting
…
…
…
CPR!
Crash carts!
Staccato orders!
Beep, beep, beep
Screaming flat lines!
Raging, raging
Against
The dying of the light
…
…
…
Too much, too much
Of not enough
Rather, I’d have your
Gentle touch
Hear me
Wait with me
Softly, softly
…
…
…
:- Doug.
The story of your death
Tell and retell the story of your death till it feels right for you.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1267–Polarity is the problem we
Footprints in the Windsm # 1267
Polarity is the problem we need to tackle in this country, in this world. If we cannot get along together, we will not get along. “If we do not hang together…” is wisdom that applies to our world, today.
Please pass it on.
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Some day we will not be here
We can be sure someday we will not be here. We cannot be sure we have ever lived. That’s why we fear the second but can face the first with equanimity.
:- Doug.
How long does a poem need to be?
How long does a poem need to be? Long enough to reach its beginning.
:- Doug.
In the tree
In the tree
in the squirrel
in the temple
God is not there
God is here
In the enigma
inside you
in your spouse
God is not there
God is here
In the there
in the here
surrounding you
God is not there
God is
:- Doug.
Living our dying
What is important about people choosing their own way of living their dying?
:- Doug.
Your end of life conversation
What would you like your end of life conversation with your clients, your family, to be?
:- Doug.
Conveners of the conversation
As lawyers we are conveners of the conversation. Every time we meet clients, every time we lift the phone or write an email, every time we talk with anyone we convene a conversation. We can consciously use these conversations for more humanity, more rights, more life—or less.
:- Doug.
A toddler sees
A toddler sees
the fact of falling
is no reason not
to get up & run
What we at times forget
a toddler sees
:- Doug.
