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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.

Transforming storytelling/stories

:- Doug.

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.

This crisis has changed your family. In what ways would you like it to change you as a family and personally?

:- Doug.

What do you want life to be like on the other side of this crisis?

:- Doug.

Find a new level of sanity.

:- Doug.

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.

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.

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.