It must be difficult especially for a woman as caregiver to acculturate to the numbers and schedules of a nursing home. Carefamily wants to plump the pillow and hold the hand as well as dispense the meds. What a mismatch to wear on real humans! No wonder we have burnout and turnover. If a person can see this mismatch can she turn it toward her humanity, rather than lose her humanity to a machine-like “life?”
:- Doug.
Our grandchildren’s grandchildren are unreal to us or why’d we do such things to them? Our time horizons are very short: tomorrow, next vacation, maybe at most some someday retirement. Always centered in “me” and “mine.” Visiting the Alamo one day, reading the names on the plaques, I glimpsed that these were real people in my grandparents’ grandparents generation. Perhaps we can catch the glances of those 4 or 7 generations off—enough to know real people.
:- Doug.
The conversation is the invitation, the freeing, and the calling home and whole, all in one process. There is one sender—and none, one receiver—and none, one message—and none—the conversational process itself: this rhythm. This rhythm invites, releases and sends forth, and calls each member.
The conversation is not apart from its members but arises from them as they from it.
:- Doug.
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