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It’s no miracle
What humans can do
We’re divinely born

:- Doug.

Make your Estate Planning as simple as possible—but no simpler.

:- Doug.

To fail to engage is to commit suicide by moments, by inches.

:- Doug.

How does one live life, alone,
Without another to share?
How does one await death?
And yet, awaiting death
Is not the object of our years,
But living the moments,
Giving the moments.
One must find,
Or let one’s self be found by,
Or invent our way to
Love, live, engage.

:- Doug.

Be rich as you are human
One hermit upon a mountain spake
& yet one truth is found
Another way around:
Be as human as you are

:- Doug.

What is life?
Love & Meeting
These twain only
These twain one

:- Doug.

The world is larger than the law
Than medicine and finance all
These speak not or too seldom of—
The widower’s lostness and having no one to call home
Eight year olds chasing away from casket
White chickens and red wheel barrows
The engendering of our kind
Hugs and tears and awkward words
Flower beds that won’t get tended this year

:- Doug.

I teach with questions.

:- Doug.

What is healing in the nursing home? What is whole-making for an elder?

:- Doug.

How big your circle?
We sit in circle
Hearing each other
Being heard
How big?
These chairs?
These friends?
This neighborhood?
This hemisphere?
This planet?
…?

:- Doug.

Circling, hear
Spiral in
To heart

:- Doug.

Take time
Make conversation
Make wholeness

:- Doug.

Let us take time to make conversation that just might make wholeness.

:- Doug.

I work toward people taking charge for our community.

:- Doug.

I work toward family wholeness.

:- Doug.

It is the proper work of this lawyer to invite people to grow human together. The classic professions were medicine, helping humans with their relationship to their bodies, clergy, helping humans with their relationship to their God, and law, helping humans with their relationship to their fellows. This is the classical work of a lawyer.

:- Doug.

The woven family is strong and creative.

:- Doug.

My work is Caring, Connecting, Conversing.

:- Doug.

G*d is the one who births, the one who meets, the one who converses.

:- Doug.

We stand at universe’s edge, the forests behind us ablaze and the fire headed our way; if we are to live, we jump. Jump to center. Circle to start, jump to center.

:- Doug.

This is my work
Finding the larger
In our daily

:- Doug.

Born good
Our universe
Birthing us
Into kindliness

:- Doug.

Good
The universe
Being shot through
With G*d
Whose very fibers
Are G*d
Is out for
Our good

:- Doug.