How do we make this a better place for our elders?Converse! Engage.
How do we make this a better place for our elders?Converse! Engage.
:- Doug.
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If we want our best future
What are we missing? What voices are not heard? Where is the leading edge, or where might it be? A variety of this question draws us to bring in the latest best selling author and expert to share new ideas, leads us to buy the latest books. We wish to expand our reach, to consider every option that might be viable. It is the reason we need to meet our own unusuals: we might mistake our sameness for reality. It is the reason we need to hear the voice of the Hispanic, the aboriginal, the gay and lesbian, the slow to speak, the dull, the differently abled, those who think tactilely and auditorially, those who think in wholes and those who think in parts—if we want the best future.
:- Doug.
Perhaps is a word of hope….
Perhaps is a word we can share, often. Perhaps is a word of hope.
:- Doug.
Grasping moving streams
There is something more, something other than us, afoot in the universe. We have not been able to put our finger on it. This something is beyond our ken, but yet it touches us, whispers past and is gone to come again. Through history, poets and prophets and sages have touched it, or rather been touched by it. Sometimes we try to describe it with our rational mind and it eludes us; sometimes we simply try to get next to it. We need both parts of us to grasp it and possibly something else: how does one grasp a moving stream?
:- Doug.
Now is holy
Now is holy
Other
Standing out beyond ourselves
Here is holy
Other
Between and among
Holy us
Holy is as Holy meets
:- Doug.
Elder care is things done to things. Caring is among friends.
Elder care is things done to things. Caring is among friends.
:- Doug.
Caring: a state of mind and heart
Caring: a state of mind and heart toward a You
Care: a thing done to one conceived of as an It
:- Doug.
To love another is to engage
To love another is to engage
To engage another is to love
Meet
All action is meeting
Meeting action
:- Doug.
except we let in something new?
How do we break out of our tedious thinking except we let in something new?
:- Doug.
My work is healing, making whole, the life of the people who touch mine.
My work is healing, making whole, the life of the people who touch mine.
:- Doug.
Stepping outside ourselves, offering our gentle touch
To heal we need to step outside ourselves. A physician cannot worry about catching the disease while she is applying her healing touch. Nor can we. We must boldly meet each other, do what we can do, offer our being. It could be scary opening ourselves if we took precious time to think about ourselves; so instead we get to work offering our gentle touch.
:- Doug.
A dance! We heal so that we can live fully; we live fully to be whole.
A dance! We heal so that we can live fully; we live fully to be whole.
:- Doug.
We are all we have….
We are all we have. Or if you prefer, we are the only hands of God here now. We need to get to work. We’re the ones here; it’s our job.
:- Doug.
This healing, wholing practice
The healing, wholing practice of the lawyer, and of the community disorganizer is bringing us together, turning us to one another.
:- Doug.
