Category Archives: Family
We the families
We, the families, and the professionals who work outside the facilities, can start carrying life back through those doors. First we have to see life where staff see loss and less. Then we engage spontaneity and convivium. :- Doug.
Safety a launch pad
Safety ought be a launch pad for elders to be and fly, not an instrument of suffocation. :- Doug.
Sacred elders
The essential sacredness of the elders is most present in the most frail. How is this true? :- Doug.
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Take your elder home
Take your elder home: visit the old places, even if you cannot enter. Seek entry risking being turned away: you may be welcomed. For sure it will be a meeting of a new circumstance worth telling. :- Doug.
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Grandchildren care space?
Do you give your grandchildren space to give you caring? :- Doug.
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Play makes grow
Play makes grow a child—and an elder. :- Doug.
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Love the grandchildren you’re with
The challenge is to write the family story in a scattered and mobile society. May the word ought to be “for:” “for a scattered and mobile society.” If you’re not with the grandchildren you love, love the grandchildren you’re with. … Continue reading
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Tell me grandchild
Tell me grandchild, what have you learned? It may be, it may be. :- Doug.
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To wish not to be a burden
To wish to not be a burden on your children is at root selfish. For will you be abandoned if you are too much burden? Yet your son’s soul goes out to you and your daughter needs to mother you. … Continue reading
Give books and names
Give your grandchild a book and a name. A book to open a new way; a name to which to add stature. :- Doug.
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Ask a grandchild
Ask about meaning ask a grandchild :- Doug.
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Our role
Our role develop meaning with grandchildren :- Doug.
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cookies too
Grandma knows you wants what’s good for you cookies too has larger experiences ask her help :- Doug.
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Very best grandchildren
What is the very best of which grandchildren can be? :- Doug.
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Deeply to become
Our world is hospitable when we continuously invite the grandchildren to become what they most deeply need to become. :- Doug.
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When we are young
When we are young the great act is play When we are adult it is woman-man entwining When we are elder the great act is a converse that is play infinite play :- Doug.
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