An Idea Is Not A Practice

Ideas get us into trouble. Even good ones. From this blog's subject file, I find several ideas that have caused and continue to cause me trouble once I reach out to realize them. Consider ideas about love, marriage, physical fitness, or weight reduction. What about meditation, representative democracy, hydrocarbon, or tech dependency? Or consider economic … Continue reading An Idea Is Not A Practice →

A Hospice Takeover: What’s Left When You Can’t Take It With You

What's left to do before we die? What must we leave undone? And what does that mean to our relationship with our stuff now, or to the stuff of our relationships? "Youth's a stuff [that] will not endure" wrote Shakespeare. Petruchio called his new bride Katherina ...my goods, my chattels; she is my house, my … Continue reading A Hospice Takeover: What’s Left When You Can’t Take It With You →

Difficult Conversations: Anatomy of ‘The Talk’

Last Friday at Summer’s end I met a fellow clinician at a patient’s home. He was what we call in hospice the Main Caregiver. I recognized how he wore his fatigue like a second skin. Excellent of skills and knowledge, this ICU RN stepped down to speak apart from the front porch where a group … Continue reading Difficult Conversations: Anatomy of ‘The Talk’ →