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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1354

Winds, winds: blow
winds, wind around my heart
from where and to where
unknown to us, calling to us
to go to where, to find from where
we may: ever unknown
yet ever we are given
to make up paths for all of us
for the ever more of us
winds, weave through our hearts
winds, winds: blow

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Now conversing with Now
with Here
with Us
Con-verse-sing:
With-dance-sing

:- Doug.

Cars! We love ’em!
Why do we drive so fast
We spend so little time in ’em?

:- Doug.

Taking and withholding money from others
is the only way one becomes wealthy in money
but for information, knowledge & wisdom
all contribute to this wealth
& all can partake of it
these three exceed monetary wealth
precisely in their sharing

:- Doug.

I am working to develop a picture of G without pictures, without images, bigger: approaching reality. Unlimited, without fences. Images are fences. Definitions are limits. AM, is: saying more is saying less.

:- Doug.

G’s omnipotence is not
dependent upon the world’s
total submission
nor even anyone’s
acknowledgment
the word itself is wrong
choice
for there is no power
over
only fog lifting from the pond
mingling with our ankles

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1353

In elder caring, things move quickly. More quickly than you would expect.

Client is in the nursing home, and the nursing home is saying he is “plateauing:” they need to stop therapy and make the family private pay. Medicare will no longer pay.

Forget for the moment that “plateauing” is not the standard. The notice says “Call your QIO at: {insert QIO name and toll-free number of QIO} to appeal….” No name or number of the QIO! (QIO is Quality Improvement Organization.) The notice is given after the termination, not two days before as required.

So we appeal. Indiana’s QIO acts quickly and upholds our appeal within 24 hours. The nursing home issues another notice: this time they insert the QIO’s name and number, but still try to backdate the notice. We appeal again. The QIO acts quickly again.

They uphold our appeal again. (Turns out the nursing home had no records to show the condition of our client!)

So I call my client’s spouse to give the good news and it turns out that the client is now becoming belligerent around the nursing home staff and they want to send the client to a psychiatric hospital. This sounds too convenient to me, but after investigation, it seems true. So off to the hospital. All in the space of Friday to Monday.

The point is that things change quickly and we need to respond as quickly. The point is also there are many good people out there who can help make things right. The point is also that sometimes paperwork does not prove what the providers say it will prove, so it is good to follow your instincts when something does not seem right. The point is also that the person in a nursing home needs an advocate and most often that advocate is their spouse or their child: you. And you can call in help.

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It feels like
there’s something
new in the world
there is
me
I can be the force
—for good
—for conversation

:- Doug.

I invite every person of every religion
All to come home
In all places & all times

:- Doug.

Your loving hands
are the whole world
& I am there
& I am content

:- Doug.

When I am ready to go on to my sweet desserts
Please dip me in chocolate

:- Doug.

Those of us seeking to bring conversation into our human consciousness as our way of living our largest, can perhaps see ourselves as Conversation Warriors.

:- Doug.

Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers start out their classic Order Out of Chaos with a quote of Roger Hausheer in Isaiah Berlin’s Against the Current: “They sought all-embracing schemas, universal unifying frameworks, within which everything that exists could be shown to be systematically—i.e., logically or causally—interconnected, vast structures in which there should be no gaps left open for spontaneous, unattended developments, where everything that occurs should be, at least in principle, wholly explicable in terms of immutable general laws.” It strikes me in reading this that these classic scientists were instead unwittingly describing how they wanted their minds to be: systematic, logical, causal, with no gaps left for anything outside their own grasp and control. And yet over the three centuries and a quarter we have found that our minds grow beyond easy frameworks, particularly in their aspects which are inexplicable, spontaneous, and unattended.

:- Doug.

What meaning do you make out of that?

:- Doug.

We each live in different whirls, and they all make one world.

:- Doug.

This old whirled
Is ours to make
This new one

:- Doug.

So tell us.

:- Doug.

What is your whirl-view
More importantly
What can it be?

:- Doug.

Everything else out there is necessary to complete our world. We are necessary to complete someone else’s world.

:- doug.

Inviting, Imagining, Conversing: the all there is.

:- Doug.

G is the imaginative bent.

:- Doug.

Gathering is conversing.

:- Doug.

Entangled communities. What a wonderful picture!

:- Doug.