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Why is there secrecy in the elder care business? I sent students to assisted living and nursing facilities to get sample admission contracts and they were refused. Is it “We know better than you, trust us?” Is it fear of being discovered?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1465

Holy now!

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The conundrum of conversation
How it consternates!
Before it creates

:- Doug.

What are people doing dying?
Living yet (I hope)
What are people doing living?
Creating yet (new expanses to the day)

:- Doug.

What are the stories we tell each other about good and bad deaths? How might we improve our storytelling?

:- Doug.

Advance Care Planning is not primarily to capture wishes
But to coax them out of hiding
And to engender a whole litter of them

:- Doug.

Speak up!
It’s the only way to better our society
We’re the only ones it’s got

:- Doug.

Holy is hearing

:- Doug.

Hearing is a work of God
perhaps the prime

:- Doug.

Of us something more is required
Beyond what we can see there is more
The more is creating

:- Doug.

Smart phones have increase exponentially the speed with which we can display our stupidity.

:- Doug.

We have created this monster called society and only we can teach it manners.

:- Doug.

Can people who have Alzheimer’s Disease suffer from it? Surely those around them do, and surely this person experiences pain. Pain is part of the human daily condition. But suffering is optional. We might wonder if, without memory of the pain, suffering exists or persists.

:- Doug.

Conflict is always about something else.

:- Doug.

It is all more complex than that.

:- Doug.