People around the world are alike–
People around the world are alike—
Do you breathe?—I breathe!
Do you love your grandchildren?—I love my grandchildren!
:- Doug.
Archive for March, 2013
More resources than we know
We have more resources than we know and still we throw them off as fast as we do.
:- Doug.
Whose ancestor are you?
Whose ancestor are you? Are you doing the kind of ancestoring they need?
:- Doug.
How long do we want our family to continue?
For how long do we want our family to continue? As elders we’re the ones with clear enough vision to see into the future 10 years, a generation, seven generations, a thousand years, a million. As harried as our society is, no one else will. It is a gift we can give.
:- Doug.
my especial connectings
All are, still
Wednesdays are my especial connectings
With the all there is
:- Doug.
Weaving paths through the woods
Our job as lawyers is to weave a path through the woods. There will always be woods, and there will always be paths needing weaving.
:- Doug.
You want the answer
You want the answer. There is no the. There is no answer. Life gives questions. Plural.
:- Doug.
Accounting tells a story
Accounting tells a story. It is never “Any time this number comes along, do this.” First, you listen to the story. It tells you where the numbers go, so the person reading can hear the story, maybe even sing the song.
:- Doug.
Both could be right at the same time
Both could be right at the same time: there is above us only sky, and yet, and yet, the sky is at least person, at least a part of G*d, and G*d is larger than either of them or any of us knows, and G*d is weak as Bonhoeffer said, and not our puppet master nor our Daddy Warbucks as I hold: larger, larger.
:- Doug.
Fisher King questions for today
The fisher king questions are good ones to open up our conversations: what ails our world? What worries us? What do we some days think we cannot do anything about? Is there something to be gained from clear seeing and clear saying?
:- Doug.
Holding together
Each strand between
The all there is
& each of us a knot
Holding together the net
:- Doug.
The three Ds:
I help families losing a loved one to the three Ds: Dementia, Death, and Decrepancy.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1313–The hope you seek is for a particular
Footprints in the Windsm # 1313
The hope you seek is for a particular outcome. This we are not often granted, and then only as it seems by chance. Abandon hope all who enter life. Your boon can only be in sweat, with others, with neither reward nor result. Another will harvest what you will not. Do what you can to make it good.
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Our dog begs from us play
Our dog begs from us food and play and a walk, showing joy in being with us. Asking, playing: a way we too can give.
:- Doug.
An artistic stance:
How does an artistic stance toward life, seeing beauty and wonder, fit with the asking arts? Simply there: asking, trusting. Perhaps this is Heaven: trusting beauty and wonder to appear: loving first. Give first, remembering that asking is giving. It is showing others what they need and want, getting it for them as well as for me; it is giving to others by showing them they have something valuable, they are valuable…and holy.
:- Doug.
taking them in, giving away our selves
When we hear another—see another—we are in the act of taking them in giving away our selves—& this is of great value: great value to each of us & great value to the larger us. This is love—a reuniting of the separated, and as well power—realizing our individual and collective possibilities.
:- Doug.
asking for a bit of you
In conversation I am giving myself away asking for a bit of you leaving you free to make the gift.
:- Doug.
For family we need to do things right
When it comes to family, we need to do things right. Do it yourself legal documents or treating yourself for serious medical conditions will not do. Love one another. Put yourself out for one another.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1312–Nelson Mandela’s biggest conversation was in solitary
Footprints in the Windsm # 1312
Nelson Mandela started his biggest conversation, the one that ended Apartheid, while in solitary confinement. What conversation can we start, given our life condition? What higher purpose do we own that will get us beyond our walls?
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There is always power
There is always power. There are always limits to power. Look for both. We often overlook our variegated powers; look for these too.
:- Doug.
Standing behind our fences yelling
Standing behind your fences yelling at one another gets no work done. For that you must come beyond your gates and meet one another and commit to doing the hard work. We all want Congress to do the hard work. Have you forgotten when the gates are?
:- Doug.
