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Little children, converse with one another. That’s how to love. That’s how to care for the world.

:- Doug.

Let us see freshly the world of elders, the world in which we work and live.

:- Doug.

What are our Midwestern sensibilities about how we ought to treat our elders? About what respect is due them? We are not just a conduit for the corporate flavor of the month, but we can be a conduit to affect what goes on in other parts. These people are people and need to hear about real life, need our mid-course corrections.

:- Doug.

What is the work our elders are doing to the very last breath?

:- Doug.

A facilitator. I’m a ‘tater.

:- Doug.

I was once told that it is better to choose a good doctor nearby than a superb one a county away. The same is true of us. We have expertise and better, ideas. Than the expert speaker we bring in from a thousand miles away, we can better help our elders.

:- Doug.

I want to help, and I need to share things which attract me. Here’s what I like; you are invited. Here’s the fascination. Here’s where we all live, most deeply. You are invited to come along.

:- Doug.

Perhaps we need to ask, are each asking, What’s the way I can help? How can I help? Surely we ask this in families, and in associations, and with friends. We ask it at work with clients and patients, yes? Perhaps of most of the people with whom we come in contact. The folks we don’t like or don’t want to help are the unusual cases. In truth this is the work of love. We have a primal need to give ourselves.

:- Doug.

We have a bigger than our own want to fill—we each want to help. It is possible humanity goes no deeper than this.

:- Doug.

It is said of old age, Lose yourself, find yourself. Have you found any truth in that?

:- Doug.

What is the elder fun
of having a life of my own?
of being complete in myself?
enjoy myself
enjoy those in my presence

:- Doug.

What does the harvest of your life look like? What is the harvest of your life?

:- Doug.

The last years, our last things we do and say for and to each other—these I want to explore for our family and legal growth.

:- Doug.

We throw around the word “goal” so much when we hardly know what we are saying.

:- Doug.

There is not one world
There are many ways to
Interpret

:- Doug.

Alzheimer’s has Mary. Don is worried. I’m helping.

:- Doug.

People who love people with Alzheimer’s need help. That’s what I do.

:- Doug.

It is said in old age, Loss is gain. Has that proved true for you?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1571

This is a holy time. Unrest in me. Few things to do and many things to do. Walk around the corner—you cannot see around. There is good to let in, good to create, good to stir. This is holy time.

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What are some of the things you have live by, perhaps you are even proud to call old-fashioned?

:- Doug.

I help people with long-term care decisions so they don’t worry.

:- Doug.

Mindful caring mindful aging.

:- Doug.

Softly softly.

:- Doug.