to start to
It’s taken me 70 years
to start to
wise up
:- Doug.
It’s taken me 70 years
to start to
wise up
:- Doug.
Children of the spirit welcome whatever comes to us on the wind.
:- Doug.
You must leave home.
:- Doug.
We talk with someone for a couple of minutes and we think we know them; we meet someone for an instant and we know.
:- Doug.
Get to the coeur.
:- Doug.
Don’t take care—don’t even give it—share caring.
:- Doug.
Our work is about caring.
:- Doug.
The things I think about God—my explorations of God—cannot separate me from God’s love—nothing can. God invites.
:- Doug.
Gather the periphery
into center
uncomfortable? good!
:- Doug.
As I looked upon the book called the New Testament I saw a word, alive, hovering over it—LOVE—as I watched, this word morphed before my eyes into its deeper meaning—FREE.
:- Doug.
Periphery is the edge
of the larger
look away first
:- Doug.
O you little people!
:- Doug.
We are saving home, health, and hearth.
:- Doug.
After getting the large picture it costs what it is worth.
:- Doug.
This is my task: to get folks Medicaid qualified.
:- Doug.
You want to get Mom qualified for Medicaid: there are ways that are solid, that are legal and ethical, that work; they need to be done with care to follow the complex and ever-changing rules.
:- Doug.
You want help for Medicaid qualification for reasons financial: you could lose much to the nursing home. You want help with the burdens: you could do this yourself, but help will make your gathering of documents more efficient and effective, help will organize your case so you don’t have to keep re-applying. You want help for the emotional: you are worn out caring, you are running out of money, there is a way, if done right and carefully, to move back to loving them, and being free of the worry of running out of money.
:- Doug.
You will elder the children. Some will be.
:- Doug.
How might we elder the children, the community, the cosmos? By sharing. What shall we share? Maybe not our wisdom. Rather our questioning, our curiosity, our stories, our hearing this person. Maybe less.
:- Doug.
What new kind of story?
:- Doug.
Go meet elders.
:- Doug.
Larger, now, larger.
:- Doug.
Reality is sharing.
:- Doug.