Archive for January, 2016

Are special gifts?

Who are the elders you know who are special gifts?

:- Doug.

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Footprints in the Windsm # 1573–Primary

Footprints in the Windsm # 1573

To ask “How do I live the call in my everyday life” is to make your everyday life primary over your call. And yet Abraham packed up all his wealth and loves to take with him on his journey. We do carry with us who we are and those who have met us. Our love gives us duties to them, the greatest of which is to be who we are. The answer might be, Set off with love.

Actually, I now think the answer might be in reversing the priorities, to ask instead, “How do I bring my daily life into my call?” Or more completely, “How do I bring my daily life into relationship with you and those in my life?”


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elder with elder?

Can we connect elder with elder?

:- Doug.

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True politicians

True politicians
do not have to be
ever starting wars

:- Doug.

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another human gift

Every human
however old is
home to another human gift

:- Doug.

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My bottom line

My bottom line is not in gathering money
It’s gathering with people well enough
To be truly caring

:- Doug.

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South Bend: a Community Caring for Our Elders

South Bend: a Community Caring for Our Elders

:- Doug.

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Courage often goes with disability

Courage so often goes with disability
Long deep fully conscious good-byes
Aging requires of us more than all we’ve got

:- Doug.

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Pay no attention

Pay no attention to what the brain-body is saying if you would be meditate/contemplate.

:- Doug.

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What did they expect?

What did they expect? Ask them. Get clear. For instance, getting sick and not having to call upon their purse or family for help? First, seek the best quality of life. Maybe we can conserve or regroup resources and income. Life does not come free, and we cannot expect that we keep ourselves comfortable in failing health, and still leave all we had before to the next generation. We eat our cake or give it on whole.

:- Doug.

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and getting hugs

I’m doing good and getting hugs. Who would want to quit that?

:- Doug.

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Roll it out

Roll it out. Each day thicker, thicker.

:- Doug.

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Your Why

Your Why is more important to me than my How.

:- Doug.

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Momentarily caring

Momentarily Caring: Little ways when you’re pressed for time

:- Doug.

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Deeper mysteries await

Deeper mysteries await; no, pull at us
In age they beckon us daily
Fog to ignore or explore, either unknowing
The end of all our spiraling
Brings our true selves, home, relatives:
Maybe; or simply life as it grows on
And we are called

:- Doug.

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I might be doing powers of attorney so

I might be doing powers of attorney so Don can handle Mary’s banking and doctoring; I might be working with them through rearranging assets and gathering proofs so Mary can get relief from that six-times-their-income nursing home bill; I might work with their doctors, nurses, and hospices to get the end of life they picture.

:- Doug.

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Reflection Conversation on Caring Better

Reflection Conversation on Caring Better: can we have?

:- Doug.

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Ask folks over

Ask folks over, enkindle, evoke, stir, invite! Find things they love doing. Look for folks who speak and write for others. Look for folks who are reflective. Find hooks. Find fishers.

:- Doug.

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Why are we doing this?

Why are we doing this? Would it change the world if we stopped?

:- Doug.

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A mystery of Alzheimer’s

There is a mystery of Alzheimer’s, perhaps to be lived into.

:- Doug.

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Memories hold the meanings

Memories hold the meanings.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 29th, 2016 | No Comments »

A disease of the eyes

A disease of the eyes is afoot among us. We see all those other people as things standing in our way.

:- Doug.

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Great Ones

These are the Great Ones
—our elders—
would we open to them

:- Doug.

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