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Friend, into Your Reflective Now.

:- Doug.

Reflection might start with getting people to see how they are affected by Mom’s or Dad’s health, by admitting their own vulnerable confusion and overwhelm, and finding their own role in the matter.

:- Doug.

Reflection together is a higher level and power of conversation. It takes more exploration and work to get there.

:- doug.

I am helping Dad care for Mom, and still be able to eat and live at home. But more, I am helping families come to terms with each other and with Mom’s new normal.

In the community I am helping folks come to terms with their own deaths and preferences around that, and with getting families to come together. Especially in the sacred intimacy of strangers.

Beyond this my community work could get people reflecting together (T⁴) around What are our responsibilities to and for our elders?

:- Doug.

I get to ask, “How?”
How do we care for Mom and Dad
When thinking becomes difficult?
Walking? Eating? Taking medicines?
I get to ask this of families
And of communities

:- Doug.

Seek not to be understood
Rather to get friends to reflect

:- Doug.

Living fields
Humankind within
Working, learning, beautifying
Inventing the
Living fields

:- Doug.

I get to help people in the crises of nursing home, long-term illness, and death. This is very fulfilling because I get to do much good.

:- Doug.

I get to help people get Mom or Dad in the nursing home for good. I’ll let you reflect on what way I might have meant.

:- Doug.

The great quaking we are going through is the struggle of something old against approaching death, something old that is refusing to go gently, punching the air and thrashing out in all directions.

:- Doug.