Intensive care helps us live longer?
We tend to think more intensive care helps us live longer. Statistics suggest that may not be the case. Beyond that, we might not even know what we mean by living.
:- Doug.
Archive for November, 2014
In a barely audible not yet whisper
In a barely audible not yet whisper
In a sound beneath all silence and things
In a storm, a chipmunk’s chatter,
A tele-preacher’s patter:
Divinity so many ways accessible
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1468–something about how we meet our world:
Footprints in the Windsm # 1468
It is profoundly and vitally important for me to do something about how we meet our world: so we become ever more reflective and whole.
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The wet washcloth
It has been said we spend more medical Dollars in the last months of life than the rest of life. Is it because our society wants—we want—to do something? To apply technology even to death? What if we shifted some of our thinking from technology to the wet washcloth? From doing something that mechanizes the flow of life to applying the human touch? Cool the brow, brush back the hair, converse?
:- Doug.
Pushy way we want medicine practiced
More people on hospice as compared with people not on hospice live to 1 year and 2 years after diagnosis. Live longer with less aggressive more kindly caring. What does this say about medicine and particularly the pushy way we want it practiced?
:- Doug.
Good for the day
I am less distracted now than when I first sat down here. I want to sit here and meditate/contemplate for awhile before I jump up for some other things. That will be good for the day….
:- Doug.
Shunted from one place to the next
It’s not just one and done—you get resuscitated when you don’t want it. You also can get shunted from one place to the next to the next by uncaring or unthinking “systems” of people. Marketing and overworked staff, people with their own agendas—all contribute. Sometimes nobody will sit down and think about the thinking.
:- Doug.
not where memory is stored
Perhaps neurons are not where memory is stored. Maybe it is stored in the synapses, the in betweens. Only when they send chemical signals across do we have memory. And so the neurons are there to be the receptors of the memories. It is the synapses that do the talking and the work.
:- Doug.
an echo in the storage barrel?
Cartoons show angels and devils on our shoulders, whispering in our ears. Sufis speak of the community of voices we have within. Movies picture parents and strangers echoing down our minds. Could there be truth in these images? That our brains store up all these things and play them back to us as self talk? Memories that are triggered by some association or for no apparent reason talk to us. We therefore would have thousands of voices in our heads by the time we are a few years old. How are we to separate out what is our thinking and what is an echo in the storage barrel?
:- Doug.
Leaves open green
Winds blow. Leaves open green. Someone is angry out of proportion to the provocation. What might these signify? What can we understand beneath the understanding?
:- Doug.
humanity we need
Finished Kahane’s Solving Tough Problems this morning. He puts me again in mind of the words reflective and generative. It is the kind of conversation, world, and humanity I want because we need.
:- Doug.
need me to be me
Want to keep my journaling and meditating/contemplating short because my clients need me. Still need to have it because my clients need me to be me.
:- Doug.
Public officials testifying in front of ordinary citizens?
What if the public officials testified in front of ordinary citizens and then the citizens worked out what to do?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1467–Democracy is hard
Footprints in the Windsm # 1467
Democracy is hard. For this election, I went on line looking for information about the candidates. I thought they would want people to know what they stood for, what their positions were on issues, what they proposed to do in office. This information was difficult to find. Their Websites did not provide much information; news channels sometimes asked them questions and sometimes they responded, but the space given them was a sentence or two.
So I started thinking: What if each candidate were required or strongly encouraged to provide this information each election? Perhaps to some election board or independent non partisan organization? And voters were encouraged to go there for information, maybe even have it as a place where people could carry on conversations about the issues in a civil manner?
And what if this site became the primary source for reliable information about the elections and candidates? And what if political ads were required to start with an inaudible electronic signal that would allow us to set our TVs to auto mute when a political ad came on?
It might give us all a little peace and quiet, and some more rationally considered voting.
Of course not everybody would look there to make their decisions; work needs to be done to make sure the site did not get hijacked; more work would be needed to make sure there was fairness.
Democracy might just get better, a little bit.
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Blue car speeds past
Blue car speeds past
Now red
Words!
Then I realize
Of the trees and the grass
—their green!
:- Doug.
