with Dad?
What can we create with Dad?
:- Doug.
To invite deeper conversation: Draw me a picture, write me a song.
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
Song surreptitiously
To invite deeper conversation: Share a song surreptitiously: what were the words to X?
:- Doug.
Deeper conversation:
To invite deeper conversation: share a reflective song, for example, What a Wonderful World.
:- Doug.
Gathering a family
Gathering a family heart, mind, and can-do
around the person most in need of our loving
:- Doug.
The world can make its way to good
The world can make its way to good
When we can find our way to dialogue
:- Doug.
To invite deeper
To invite deeper conversation: share openly what’s going on in your life, mind, and especially heart.
:- Doug.
Nothing more to lose
Nothing more to lose
so victims are generous
Nothing we hide
speaking personally, openly, from the heart
Those bring the world together
to its senses
to the future we all deeply want
:- Doug.
Expressive therapy
Just researched a bit about expressive therapy: the use of music, art, and story telling to help folks with dementia have a higher quality life. For me I understand higher quality to mean more woven into life. This study says to me there is that creativity of God in all of us, and it might not show for dementia people because they are in enforced do nothing mode. And because we fail them by thinking that trouble thinking one way means trouble thinking in all ways.
:- Doug.
Who will be in our cast?
To invite deeper conversation: Who will be our partners? Who is in our cast of characters?
:- Doug.
Creating melodies
Humanity is an expression of divinity
as it creates melodies
with other members of the orchestra
:- Doug.
I entice you to one another
I entice you to one another
To the larger spiraling around you
you will need to make up your mind
:- Doug.
Make up your mind my love
Make up your mind my love
Will you side with money, your stomach,
or with humanity?
:- Doug.
The only thing that deserves expressing
The only thing which deserves expressing
will only consent to being expressed
in living
:- Doug.
Art is attempting to express
Art is attempting to express
—always failing—
that which refuses to be expressed
:- Doug.
Enjoying the world contributes
Enjoying the world contributes to improving it
We take its measure, test its supposed limits
:- Doug.
Living all the way to dying
Living all the way to dying
is a process of
turning the entire flesh to spirit
:- Doug.
It is of no import that I be remembered
It is of no import that I be remembered
Only that I helped humanity forward
:- Doug.
