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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.

We are invited to imagine and engage.

:- Doug.

Jesus imagines us
Larger

:- Doug.

Reflection is the definition of human, and the respirational method explains why it is useful to encourage groups to give themselves the opportunity of going to smaller groups, rather than staying always in a committee of the whole. This way we get the benefit of a more complex way of processing what we are hearing, saying, and seeing.

:- Doug.

To prepare a Power of Attorney
Is not to only prepare a Power of Attorney
It only takes an hour to prepare
And then another hour to
Explore it with you

:- Doug.

Reflection is how we became conscious
We see what we are doing, thinking
Reflection is the only way we can claim we are conscious
Reflection is the definition of conscious
And human

:- Doug.

The respirational process
—moving from large to small groups to individuals and back—
Allows for, builds in, necessary reflection (T₂, T₄)

:- Doug.

Ask, How is this affecting Mom?
Then, How is this affecting you?

:- Doug.

A web of connections we say
Maybe we mean
A web of which we become conscious
And yet we do
Affect, direct, invite it to morph

:- Doug.

Conversation’s Ways

:- Doug.

Conversation’s Way

:- Doug.

Via Conversation

:- Doug.

There are many fields
(The way to see them
Is to look)
Passing through each other
Unfolding each other
With and without touching
Many we keep hidden
Because we love them so much
We fear them
—They might change us
For ever

:- Doug.

A field already exists
Our eyes hide it from us
We are part of it
Stirred by it
Stirrers of it
Are you still unconscious
Of this?

:- Doug.

Interinnerviews
May hold keys
Looking in
Via between
Or vice versa

:- Doug.

In life there are no goals
Life goes on
For life no goals no ends

:- Doug.

Not sending out
Not receiving
Just here

:- Doug.

Shy is the sacred
Will not knock on our door
Nor approach without invitation
Ours it is to make space
Glance, then avert our eyes

:- Doug.

Unearth shared commitments, ideals, the developing field among us. See beyond the grey cloth, engage the world beyond the grey cloth.

:- Doug.

Unearthing shared perceptions might be a key. Leading toward wider perceptions of the world in which they find themselves. Look at the grey cloth, examine it, then look through it, eventually poke holes.

:- Doug.

The thrust/intention needs to be to find the commonalities among this family, and where they think they need to get, given that there are no 200 year old people out there.

:- Doug.