Archive for August, 2012

For a bird

For a bird
For a squirrel
Is life hard,
or a lark?
I suspect
they’d consider
Life is life

:- Doug.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I have more friends than ever I realized

I have more friends than ever I realized

:- Doug.

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

Is dying important?

Is dying important?
Is being born?
Is how we die important?
Important for what?
For whom?

:- Doug.

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

Dying well?

Do you know someone who died well? Do you know someone who was prevented from dying well?

:- Doug.

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

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.

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

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.

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

The story of your death

Tell and retell the story of your death till it feels right for you.

:- Doug.

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

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.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on August 26th, 2012 | No Comments »

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.

Published in: Conversations | on August 26th, 2012 | No Comments »

How long does a poem need to be?

How long does a poem need to be? Long enough to reach its beginning.
:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 26th, 2012 | No Comments »

Giving away

I am giving away my gift to the world.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 24th, 2012 | No Comments »

All real life, all real love, is conversing

All real life, all real love, is conversing.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 24th, 2012 | No Comments »

Reality, not reverie

Reality, not reverie, in contemplation.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 24th, 2012 | No Comments »

On our side

You are all, we are all on our side; what are we going to do now?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 23rd, 2012 | No Comments »

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.

Published in: Conversations | on August 23rd, 2012 | No Comments »

Living our dying

What is important about people choosing their own way of living their dying?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 23rd, 2012 | No Comments »

Where is our desire for movement?

Where is our desire for movement?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 22nd, 2012 | No Comments »

Your end of life conversation

What would you like your end of life conversation with your clients, your family, to be?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on August 22nd, 2012 | No Comments »

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.

Published in: Conversations | on August 22nd, 2012 | No Comments »

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.

Published in: Conversations | on August 21st, 2012 | No Comments »
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