We sell caring
We sell caring
We sell life
And the living of it
:- Doug.
Are we proud of our clients? Of the results we produce for them? Of what they produce in us?
:- Doug.
Archive for May, 2020
Hear beyond listening
Reflective hearing is of highest value. Hear beyond listening: take in, assimilate the other. Reflect: explore further this path.
:- Doug.
Garden for flourishing
Our work is to create better conditions for life. We are gardeners making an environment for flourishing.
:- Doug.
Sanity lives family
I tend to work on projects, things needing doing at a consequential time in people’s lives. Big things are at stake—sanity, lives, family.
:- Doug.
Higher ground than crisis
Our work needs to be beyond getting our clients through the crisis. We must get them to a higher humanity.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1956–Forward-looking generation
Footprints in the Windsm # 1956
We are a forward-looking generation our eye on future possibles and aspirations seldom feeling the ground beneath our feet those ancestors and shunning to hear around us those others and species and formations making up our habitat and symphonia. What if we opened our nostrils and caught a whiff or two of the about and sought for with among all?
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People are in crisis
People are in crisis. It is not primarily a medical crisis, nor primarily a financial crisis. It is a life crisis: what is living to be about now? Next? What is being opened to us: windows, skylights, doors? How will we fare, make our way?
:- Doug.
So Wednesday’s class
So Wednesday’s class will be deeper than I had thought. Can these people take me deeper? What can I do to open the path?
:- Doug.
Is suffering intrinsic?
Joan Berzoff on Friday said suffering is intrinsic to dying. I ask if that is so. Or do we mistake the work, do we mistake arduous for suffering? Do we get in the way?
:- Doug.
Hear the lessons
Hence, a lot of thinking about what that transformation might be. My clients can guide me, ought to be the guides. But we can do more, much more for them, than simply the technical grunt work of the Medicaid application. We can help them have a better life the other side of the rapids, a better life self-defined. We can introduce them to others to help, we can be there to hear, to witness. We can teach (doctor!) volunteers and family to hear. We can find teachers. We can hear the lessons.
:- Doug.
Baker’s Implementing:
Baker’s Implementing. Baker seems to prompt things from me. Just this morning he spoke of the professional as transforming the client. This is a higher step than service and higher than experience: help the client to become better.
:- Doug.
Crisis changed family
This crisis has changed your family. In what ways would you like it to change you as a family and personally?
:- Doug.
