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What do you want your family to do? Whom do you want your family to be?

:- Doug.

The things we ignore as attorneys—the feelings, the desire to have the family get along, etc—are the main event for the client and her family. We could help.

:- Doug.

Families become whom they will be after Dad is in the nursing home, and dies.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1955

Push off in your canoe
into waters chasing waters
which have already flowed by
into waters way out ahead
those waters which have yet
to fall as rain
and are way behind
see: the past is ahead
the future is trailing
and even this is good:
this river will turn you

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What is the work of dying?

:- Doug.

Tell a juicier story, make more meaning-filled moments for this leg of the journey. This is a profound time, when we find where to be.

:- Doug.

I actually have some things to add to that conversation. I can elicit that kind of conversation, evoke it. We could do some story catching. Find someone to help with scrapbooking and story writing. (The lady I met at Forever Learning Institute the last two weeks wants to do that.) The Story Corps questions could be very helpful for that, and we could be witnesses and catalysts.

:- Doug.

More life out of their days, out of the time they have together—this is something we can help find.

:- Doug.

Make a juicier pie.

:- Doug.

Compassion and Storytelling

:- Doug.

Can we just have higher humanity?

:- Doug.

The ethics of life in the 24th century in light of the times we are going through

:- Doug.

Why 300 years

:- Doug.

Why we tell stories

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1954

To explore: Why must we insist on increasing our income, even our competition, in this covid time? We are the richest country on the planet: can we simply choose to live off our savings for a while? The rub is that there are those who do not want to release the stockpiles to help others to live. This is causing the angst.

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What we say we do is our challenge to ourselves.

:- Doug.

Is suffering intrinsic to dying, or is dying just arduous?

:- Doug.

No, I don’t do Wills. Unless you mean counseling with people on how they might best help their family and community with what they leave behind—and especially how.

:- Doug.

People want to live their love when someone needs help in age. I can help these people.

:- Doug.

Are you fresh eyes?

:- Doug.

See how these fresh eyes are lighting a new path?!

:- Doug.

Answer the questioner, not the question.

:- Doug.

I see people who can head off a likely disaster by naming an “in case person.” Or now’s the time, and they need a paper to let them talk to doctors, hospitals, banks. I see people at their wits end caring for their husband or mother, wondering when they can sleep, where the money will come from. That’s why I do what I do.

:- Doug.