More life means more life
Life touching life: life in touch with life gives us more life. More life means more life.
:- Doug.
Archive for December, 2014
Footprints in the Windsm # 1472–Aimless and meaningful
Footprints in the Windsm # 1472
The only aim of conversation is to get to the other side. It is aimless and meaningful.
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Beyond reverence for life
Beyond reverence for life, engage life. Put life into conversation with itself.
:- Doug.
The three Ps of nursing homes
When people talk about a family member languishing in a nursing home, I will do the caring thing if I suggest they bring in parakeets and pets and plants.
:- Doug.
If the meaning of life is life, then
If the meaning of life is life, then the purpose of conversing is living.
:- Doug.
embrace the unfolding?
Circulating, ventilating, generating, and all the rest: perhaps I need to embrace the unfolding….
:- Doug.
Unregimenting the regimented
Unregimenting the regimented: this may be the soul work of making more caring our caring for our elders. We certainly have the technology to deliver individual care. Instead we send a platoon of sergeant-nurses through the ranks of dependent people to make them conform to one schedule. Thus we remove from folks their privacy and any semblance of having an individual life. “[B]ut when you are old…someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.” We are demonstrating our own lack of imagination, lack of humanity. It is up to us to demand of us our highest and best.
:- Doug.
Perhaps have some long days coming
Perhaps have some long days coming. So the yard work, although calling to me, will have to be minimal. My body needs to stretch.
My soul needs to stretch.
:- Doug.
What do we call logic that is paradoxical, antinomial,
What do we call the logic that is paradoxical, antinomial, synchronic, synthesis-encouraging, interwoven, complex, intricate, lateral, tangential, spiraling, circulating, meaning-making, humanizing, hate-engendering, embracing, juxtaposing, ventilating, analogical, articulate, intelligent, provocative, evocative, enlarging, generating, engaging, fellowship-finding, sensitive, unfolding? Conversation.
:- Doug.
