Reflective, whole, engaging:
Reflective, whole, engaging. Spirit, Father, Son.
:- Doug.
You cannot be a whole human being without becoming reflective.
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
The wet washcloth
It has been said we spend more medical Dollars in the last months of life than the rest of life. Is it because our society wants—we want—to do something? To apply technology even to death? What if we shifted some of our thinking from technology to the wet washcloth? From doing something that mechanizes the flow of life to applying the human touch? Cool the brow, brush back the hair, converse?
:- Doug.
Pushy way we want medicine practiced
More people on hospice as compared with people not on hospice live to 1 year and 2 years after diagnosis. Live longer with less aggressive more kindly caring. What does this say about medicine and particularly the pushy way we want it practiced?
:- Doug.
Good for the day
I am less distracted now than when I first sat down here. I want to sit here and meditate/contemplate for awhile before I jump up for some other things. That will be good for the day….
:- Doug.
Shunted from one place to the next
It’s not just one and done—you get resuscitated when you don’t want it. You also can get shunted from one place to the next to the next by uncaring or unthinking “systems” of people. Marketing and overworked staff, people with their own agendas—all contribute. Sometimes nobody will sit down and think about the thinking.
:- Doug.
not where memory is stored
Perhaps neurons are not where memory is stored. Maybe it is stored in the synapses, the in betweens. Only when they send chemical signals across do we have memory. And so the neurons are there to be the receptors of the memories. It is the synapses that do the talking and the work.
:- Doug.
an echo in the storage barrel?
Cartoons show angels and devils on our shoulders, whispering in our ears. Sufis speak of the community of voices we have within. Movies picture parents and strangers echoing down our minds. Could there be truth in these images? That our brains store up all these things and play them back to us as self talk? Memories that are triggered by some association or for no apparent reason talk to us. We therefore would have thousands of voices in our heads by the time we are a few years old. How are we to separate out what is our thinking and what is an echo in the storage barrel?
:- Doug.
Leaves open green
Winds blow. Leaves open green. Someone is angry out of proportion to the provocation. What might these signify? What can we understand beneath the understanding?
:- Doug.
humanity we need
Finished Kahane’s Solving Tough Problems this morning. He puts me again in mind of the words reflective and generative. It is the kind of conversation, world, and humanity I want because we need.
:- Doug.
need me to be me
Want to keep my journaling and meditating/contemplating short because my clients need me. Still need to have it because my clients need me to be me.
:- Doug.
Public officials testifying in front of ordinary citizens?
What if the public officials testified in front of ordinary citizens and then the citizens worked out what to do?
:- Doug.
Blue car speeds past
Blue car speeds past
Now red
Words!
Then I realize
Of the trees and the grass
—their green!
:- Doug.
All this time watching me
Man, sitting quietly
All this time watching me
Life startles us
By its presence
To us
:- Doug.
This gesture of closed fist in open palm
This gesture of the closed fist in the open palm, yang in yin, acting and receiving, shows me engendering, and the work of conversation: we need both the going forth and the reflection. The world this year is all about taking action: dropping bombs, building roads, selling products. Thought comes out as ideologies screaming at one another. It is maybe hopeful these ideologies become ever more brittle, and when they crack, spill out their vulnerable yolks. Something might yet be birthed.
:- Doug.
Winds catching up
East spins the world
Winds catching up
Bring weather futures
From the past
When West reaches for East
Thunder! Flashes!
Glimpses of new conversings!
:- Doug.
