I love the word invent for in its modern meaning it is about creating something new, and in its ancient meaning it is about finding what’s already there. I love the ambiguity, but more than that, I love the evocative. We can both create something new and find something that’s always been present.
:- Doug.
We live best when we live integral lives, lives of one thread: thus we are less likely to unravel.
:- Doug.
It is not easy to remember and to do, to bring the practice of the presence to your life, but that is why we are here, yes: to work it out in our own lives?
:- Doug.
When I was 50, I woke up one day realizing I could not remember what I liked to do. I think this is pretty general. Perhaps our culture teaches us we need to give up depth of life in order to have an income, to give up life to get our living.
:- Doug.
It is not that God reaches down and puts ideas in this one or that, but that God is all about between and is current flowing in which we are awash.
:- Doug.
I’m not a connector: you are already connected. I simply invite you to meet your family.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1221
Inside us
moments
moments we have never lost
moments to watch clouds sailing
moments to hold hands
eons of moments &
moments of eons
seconds that last a year
decades that flash by in our child’s growing
Please pass it on.
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The metaphors we choose are often the oceans in which we swim also sleep.
:- Doug.
Care is a word people use to say what they sell; Caring is a word I use to describe who I am.
:- Doug.
When we order things, we are about history, using what we know of these things from the past. With people when we invite them to display all the humanity and new in them, we respect them beyond things.
:- Doug.
Doctors are in danger of relegating their profession to the role of technicians, to be consulted only when there is an unusual problem or when we need a prescription-writer. Day to day and month to month care plans are abdicated to the people who are there daily: nurses, social workers, and family. But wouldn’t doctors want to be part of this?
:- Doug.
Buber tells us only Its can be organized; Yous are not subject to ordering. We can say You can only be met, each is the only one, yet itself one. So when we say we are community dis-organizers we are respecting the one of a kind nature of all the Yous in the room.
:- Doug.
Is the world made of wholes
or parts?
You choose
& so make
your own
:- Doug.
A few days ago I learned that doctors are in some settings expected to see 40 patients a day. What’s the math on 40 patients in a day?
Today I spoke with a couple of therapists about getting the doctor involved in elder care, specifically to give the family time for a consult and prognosis, and to take part in the quarterly plan of care meeting. One of them laughed at me and the other almost did. Doctors don’t do those things!
I continue to believe that doctors overwhelmingly have a heart for their patients, but the system demands they limit their minutes per patient. Who would want to become a doctor?
Maybe that is why doctors are easier for pharmaceutical companies to persuade than our prior generations of doctors were: what can you do to education patients for better self-health care or in therapeutic efforts and just plain ingenuity in a few minutes?
:- Doug.
Look at me
Your eyes lie
Your eyes don’t know
I may be in pain or joy
Four days ago I injured myself
You see someone who looks healthy
Your eyes see history
Until you hear
From my insides
You don’t know
:- Doug.
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