Sharing wisdom that comes from parenting our parents
We really do have time machines these days. Have you ever used Google Maps to go back and look at a childhood neighborhood? See how things have changed. See how they haven’t. I moved around a lot as a kid, so there are lots of locations to look up. Each one with particular memories of …
Here’s the scene. You are facing a life-and-death situation in which you are suddenly in charge of people’s lives and livelihoods. You have no training for the situation and no help appears to be on the way. You have no real authority but full responsibility. Resources are limited to only what you have at hand. …
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To say we are unchanged by caregiving events is to deny an essential part of what it is to be human. We grow from events until the day we die.
When working with Dad during his declining years, I remember those oh-so-valuable conversation where we said the things we wanted to say. Conversations that eventually would become no longer possible. Talks of financial and burial arrangements that were thinly disguised versions of “I love you”. Bittersweet today but were just “significant” talks back then. Those …
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