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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1558

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Slowly now. See more. There is always more to touch, to hear, to be heard by, to be touched by.

:- Doug.

Allow more to come in, allow more to come through. You.

:- Doug.

I turn around words and things to see other, to see more deeply. There is more here to see, to be loved by.

:- Doug.

Tell me about your recent soul adventures….

:- Doug.

How would you be part of the conversation 100 years from now?

:- Doug.

What do you most remember about your life so far, yourself?

:- Doug.

People with Alzheimer’s may be more than we in touch with what it means to be alive, to be spiritual. They may be taking us to break-through. Nursing homes may be laboratories of discovery.

:- Doug.

People who are demented need to converse with us. How do we do that? First, get over our fear of them. Second, get beyond conversing as words. Meet in the more essential—the human.

:- Doug.

Conversing is about growing a relationship, as well.

:- Doug.

Caring is about growing a relationship. So is caregiving.

:- Doug.

Are we preparing people for what’s next? What’s the best of this life you’d still like to experience?

:- Doug.

Introspection is a job of our accumulating years.

:- Doug.

Does brain plasticity work both ways?

:- Doug.

When do you reflect on your life experiences?

:- Doug.

What’s going well?

:- Doug.

To have Alzheimer’s is to be freed from the ravages of memory.

:- Doug.

What if Alzheimer’s is brain plasticity?

:- Doug.

Social systems consist in conversation
Arise only in conversation
Are conversation

:- Doug.

Process > Pattern > Structure
Structure > Decomposes > Process

:- Doug.

Patterns are
Process become
Habitual

:- Doug.

How to nudge someone whose memory is on the fritz?

:- Doug.

We cannot control
other beings
best we can do is nudge

:- Doug.