Confrontation Stories
Confrontation Stories
:- Doug.
Piercing Stories
:- Doug.
Archive for May, 2020
Essential for Dad?
What is the essential thing for Dad and for the family in the face of Dad’s life as it is now? Essential for Dad: medical care? Custodial care? Working through the 47 things and perhaps spiritual or religious or psychological or sociological issues? Essential for family: to do for Dad? To nurture their relationship with Dad? To make memories? To kill themselves with overwork and stress? To develop relationships among themselves?
:- Doug.
No final converse
It wonders me that this has no final answers, that we need to converse. Because we need to hear one another.
:- Doug.
Paper chasing whole
Does law have to be only paper chasing? How can we help people reach toward whole? Reach toward where they are and being whole here?
:- Doug.
Converse complete
Converse about what matters. Tell what is really going on. Educate in possible ways to forgive, be forgiven, thank, say farewell, say what needs to be complete.
:- Doug.
Observe peculiar
Observe the human story unfolding in the lives of these peculiar and therefore representative people. You meet.
:- Doug.
Remind of humanity
We lawyers can remind people in crises of their humanity, from putting one foot in front of another, to asking what matters.
:- Doug.
Medical less important?
What ought your dying look like? What if the medical issues were not the most important thing?
:- Doug.
Died in her sleep
Minutes ago she died
in her sleep
medically enforced
so was she able
to complete?
family left to live
choices past
memories sweet
and sour
anthems for
dyings to come
:- Doug.
