We’re all getting older and mortality seems very close sometimes… “Days We Left Behind” – Paul McCartney “April Come She Will/Sound of Silence” – Paul Simon
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Saturday Snap – Meeting of the Minds?
Had a really nice visit with my mom before Shea and I leave for Mexico (twice in one winter?!? What???) tomorrow. Off to Puerto Vallarta for a week and it’s a long story but we got a good deal and have been thinking a lot about how all four of our parents quit traveling earlier […]
Friday Fun Link – “Oh Poop!” A Modern Illustrated Fairy Tale
With some help from ChatGPT, I/we wrote the following fairy tale… (Any resemblence to people, places or things living or on life support, is purely coincidental.) Oh Poop!: A Modern Illustrated Fairy Tale In a broad kingdom, flat as a table and swept by endless winds, there stood an aging castle at the heart of […]
Wisdom Wednesday – I’m Actually in Season 17 With (Mostly) New Characters
This resonated… @ddp8792 #relatable #relationships #friends #work #girl ? original sound – Davi
Music Monday – “Gotta get down to it, soldiers are cutting us down/Should have been gone long ago/What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground/How can you run when you know?
History doesn’t repeat. But it rhymes… “Ohio” – Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
Secular Sunday – Grifting, I Mean, Grieving Widow?
Charlie Kirk’s wife husband was violently assassinated three months ago. I’m pretty hard on religion and a lot of people are saying her “grieving” isn’t appropriate. But if I’m being completely honest, if she’s truly a hardcore Christian Evangelical, I’m guessing that there’s nothing deeper here (literally) than her thinking that her husband dying was […]
Music Monday – “He Ao hara, he Ao Aroha kore/T? mai r? koe hei whaka-tau I au/Ng? t?manako O te Ao Katoa”
“Tapu Te P? (O Holy Night)” – Marlon Williams, Dhungala Children’s Choir, Paul Kelly
Music Monday – “I will come back here, bring me back when I’m old/I want to lay here forever in the cold I might be cold but I’m just skin and bones/And I’ll never love England more than when covered in snow”
One of the single saddest moments of my life was leaving England a couple days before Christmas after a four-month college exchange. I still consider the single most joyful stretch of my entire life – the people, the sights, the experiences – just pure living in the moment and openness to the world that greatly […]
Tips For Interacting With People With Dementia
Here are tips about people with dementia that I just discovered…some of them I knew but some are new to me and will help me with my mom and maybe help some of you too. Every time you enter the room announce yourself. “Hi Mom- it’s Margaret.” NEVER ask- Do you know who I am??? […]