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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1561

Grin-on-your-face creativity: I enjoy this conversational creativity, even when I am opposed. Even when it is a slog uphill. Let’s not berate the hill, let’s remember the whee! on the other side. The people who say eehw at what we propose are only showing the flip side. There is hope with them and if they do not get over it, we can get over them: Next!

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What the terrorists are doing is what they fear most.

:- Doug.

When we look at Alzheimer’s, especially in a nursing home, we may miss the trees for the forest. We hear the din and see the varied ways people have to become confused. We think “If I had to work here I’d go running away screaming.” Yet see the little events. See the staff member coming to sit with the yelling elder, saying “Tell me what you think of this woman, but let’s not let her know yet.” See the resident grow quiet and conspiratorial. See the staff member gently massaging the man’s feet till he wakes, smells the baking cookies, and is ready to be wheeled to lunch. The world is forest and trees.

:- Doug.

Probate is a job that needs doing. Other tools do not eliminate the work—they do it in other ways or other times. They shift the pack, but don’t reduce the burden.

:- Doug.

How might we act in this moment the might create a more valuable moment?

:- Doug.

Of the trickling water
The other side
Through
To what?
Whom?

:- Doug.