Can you build and heal?
Can you build and heal? You can, through your conversations, in whatever form. You can become part of their stories, immersed.
:- Doug.
Archive for May, 2017
Responsibility for their own caring
Elders take responsibility, not for outcomes, rather for their own caring for the children, for the others.
:- Doug.
Stitch us together?
Can we, in another’s story, however hard we must work to grasp it, find the threads to stitch us together as humans?
:- Doug.
Inciting a decent society
If we intend to be human we ought to open to hearing what is difficult to hear. Do we have the imagination to take into ourselves the experiences of another? Is this something an elder can learn for the rest of us, as an act of inciting a decent society?
:- Doug.
To sing his or her life
Here’s an elder in a nursing home, or here’s one with dementia: What could it mean to hear this one encouraged to tell or sing his or her life?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1691–Your spirit swirling
Footprints in the Windsm # 1691
Your work in this life is to set your spirit swirling.
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Not an experience
What people get from us is not an experience but a caring for. Longer running, closer to your core.
:- Doug.
What has your life taught you?
What has your life taught you about caring for another and about accepting care? Whom have you met and what have they taught you about being an elder, about the role of the elder in the family and community?
:- Doug.
Reflect the world’s sweep
Is it the work of the elder to change the world? No. Simply to reflect to us its sweep.
:- Doug.
To meet an elder is to be
To meet an elder is to be. Be heard, be seen, be so large as to fill the universe. To meet as an elder is to hear, see, allow the other to fill the universe, and maybe yourself.
:- Doug.
Changes too the poet
Minor poetry is beautiful, says little or much. Major poetry meets you, changes your being, changes too the poet.
:- Doug.
Look for one who has a heart….
Look for a lawyer who has a heart, cares, hears you, opens herself or himself to you, takes time with you, protects you.
:- Doug.
Further and deeper
Elders can take the world further and deeper—that’s why I am caring for them, protecting them.
:- Doug.
