FootprintsintheWind.com

I love knowing and
I love mystery

:- Doug.

I’ve been studying the writers
Now to study us

:- Doug.

I want to invest in my clients.

:- Doug.

This requires thinking—the hardest work there is.

:- Doug.

How do we get us to look outside our present setting to possible futures?

:- Doug.

We are about improving our friend’s condition.

:- Doug.

Life is worth its challenges.

:- Doug.

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.

How could we help our clients deal with tumultuous change?

:- Doug.

What could we teach our clients?

:- Doug.

Reflective hearing is of highest value. Hear beyond listening: take in, assimilate the other. Reflect: explore further this path.

:- Doug.

Our work is to create better conditions for life. We are gardeners making an environment for flourishing.

:- Doug.

What ought be my aspirations in working with you?

:- Doug.

We meet families in crisis and guide them safely home.

:- Doug.

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.

Can we be a precedent? Can we be specific? And universal?

:- Doug.

Our work needs to be beyond getting our clients through the crisis. We must get them to a higher humanity.

:- Doug.

The 300-year challenge: Can Storytelling Bring About a Higher Humanity?

:- Doug.

Dying these days
lasts so long
we see our lives
trudge
before our eyes

:- Doug.

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 will be deeper than I had thought. Can these people take me deeper? What can I do to open the path?

:- Doug.

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.