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I was thinking about the challenges trying to invent a new way around a computer issue, learning new ways to relate to people from the Validation Method, and taking on new things with clients which allow me to learn new things. These all draw me in and I enjoy it. Life is fresh every day.

I suppose there could come a time when illness, disability, pain, and dementia could team up to prevent me from seeing freshness, and then perhaps I would think about life differently. For now, be fresh!

:- Doug.

Life is too fresh to retire from it!

:- Doug.

This one little tree hangs
on to its red-brown as
the wind shimmers its
leaves, not everyday so
much: today spirit moves
through us do we bend
with, like one little tree?

:- Doug.

What the terrorists are doing is what they fear most.

:- Doug.

When we look at Alzheimer’s, especially in a nursing home, we may miss the trees for the forest. We hear the din and see the varied ways people have to become confused. We think “If I had to work here I’d go running away screaming.” Yet see the little events. See the staff member coming to sit with the yelling elder, saying “Tell me what you think of this woman, but let’s not let her know yet.” See the resident grow quiet and conspiratorial. See the staff member gently massaging the man’s feet till he wakes, smells the baking cookies, and is ready to be wheeled to lunch. The world is forest and trees.

:- Doug.

Probate is a job that needs doing. Other tools do not eliminate the work—they do it in other ways or other times. They shift the pack, but don’t reduce the burden.

:- Doug.

How might we act in this moment the might create a more valuable moment?

:- Doug.

Of the trickling water
The other side
Through
To what?
Whom?

:- Doug.

What do we want, in the end?
A life ended
Completed, fulfilled, finished
Maybe, just maybe
Rounded out

:- Doug.

Law is not one answer per question: it is a process of getting from Point A to Point Z, and probably ending up on Point Q where life is better than anyone could guess.

:- Doug.

Friend, into your day for loving.

:- Doug.

I cannot use someone else’s thought and heart processes, nor their styles.

:- Doug.

Together is a form of love

:- Doug.

It’s not science finds
Ways through challenges
It’s our together

:- Doug.

Our task is simple:
Find between and among
The worm holes the rabbit holes

:- Doug.

9-11: the world’s one heart flowed
Paris: we again found ourselves poured together
Terrorism is the aberration, and weak

:- Doug.

I can only write with my hand.

:- Doug.

Son, hitting is not the way to get what you want. So I will keep beating you till you learn.

:- Doug.

This is not the way to get what you want, to persuade others. Violence and blows against faceless family-less others to get what you want will not persuade the others that violence and blows are not the way to get what they want.

:- Doug.

open your ears your
eyes your fingertips to the
real in whose flow you breathe

:- Doug.

Death and dementia—two domains from which people do not often report…or from which we do not often hear their reports.

:- Doug.

Hmm…. The current of something in my life…the backdrop…. These speak to a moving world, no foundation lasting.

:- Doug.

The still point of the turning world
Is this still point holding it all together
Held as well by people with Alzheimer’s “Dis-”ease?

:- Doug.