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Can we be the best place in America to die?

:- Doug.

There is a divinity part
Of you
That seeks through you
To grow

:- Doug.

Give voice to
The best from within you
It thirsts for you to express it

:- Doug.

I write less of what has been
More of what will be
More of visions & dreams
What can be
What will be

:- Doug.

When I meet my worlds, my future, it is a dance of winds.

:- Doug.

All life is a conversation of conversations, meta-conversation.

:- Doug.

How are you going to command and control a world that talks back?

:- Doug.

We converse our world into being: it is living, it resists being built.

:- Doug.

No longer shall we plan: we dialogue.

:- Doug.

How is it that sometimes the most profound things we do pass us by unnoticed at the time? How might we better recognize the profound moments of our lives?

:- Doug.

It is so often that we tell each other about how bad it is, What is this country coming to? But…is it just possible we are coming together?

:- Doug.

How then shall we die?

:- Doug.

“It’s like we’re one person” said the speaker. That person is *.

:- Doug.

Seeing the wonder of our world calls us to humility. We reverse our wonder → humility element when we seek to gain.

:- Doug.

There are days when God does not have very much to say to me, either.

:- Doug.

How you are cared for as you die is about autonomy—you should be able to die as you wish—but also your “as you wish” can only be complete after hearing out your loving ones. When you die, a part of them is dying too.

:- Doug.

What is the work of dying? Say you have days to weeks left; you are conscious, alert and pain free. Please ponder for a couple of moments what you would want to be doing during this time. Write at least 5 things that would be most meaningful for you to be doing.

:- Doug.

What if your doctor said you had to choose between cure with lots of pain or no efforts to cure but pain would be relieved? What if it were not your doctor but a bureaucrat? When it comes to the US today, the latter is the law.

:- Doug.

My thinking is turning gradually from the absolute standard of autonomy, making some room in my thinking for what are the wishes of the family, defining family as all those around who are approaching death with this person, who will be affected by the death, who will in measure experience the death too.

:- Doug.

Meditation/Contemplation is opening space in my too-busy mind for God. What topic of conversation will God post?

:- Doug.

What’s the population of your back yard? How many living things? Birds and bacteria, fish and flying insects, people and pets?

:- Doug.

People perceive all different aspects of the divine. Let us let them live, for life gives forth life.

:- Doug.

Conversing is Caring.

:- Doug.