Let’s see if
Let’s see if we can take that deeper.
:- Doug.
Habits can be changed. Habits don’t have to have us.
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
Conversation is not neutral
Conversation is not neutral: it espouses hearing, opening, including.
:- Doug.
Dragging them back?
If people do not come back from dementia why spend so much time trying to drag them back? Ought we instead go forward?
:- Doug.
Conversation is not about talking
Conversation is not about talking
Not even about listening
It is about hearing
:- Doug.
Different kind of effort
Yes, some people will find this kind of thing uncomfortable. Particularly if you habitually go fast. Going fast is not always best, and exploring for what is better might take a different kind of effort.
:- Doug.
don’t know where this is going
I don’t know where this is going to take us. I know that your objection or detour is an important part of where we need to go. I need to go to some place deeper with this, for if we keep this on the surface we go no deeper than a boat upon the lake. We miss the wisdom, we miss the wholeness of us, we miss the little wiggly swimming living things.
:- Doug.
scary to think
It’s scary to think getting lost is the way
worse to have someone tell us
even more to have them take us by the hand
:- Doug.
feared the first day of school
Dementia might
house wisdom
even further growth
some of us feared
that first day of school
:- Doug.
It’s not niceness
Care is a financial transaction
Caring is compassion
Fellow-being (not feeling)
It’s not niceness
It’s getting to real
:- Doug.
What have you noted?
We learn more the more persons with whom we compare notes. What have you noted?
:- Doug.
