Sharing wisdom that comes from parenting our parents
For anyone who has been transformed by a caregiving experience, there is a discovery process about the subtle (and not subtle!) changes that occur in our personalities that extend out to our personal relationships. The role reversals and the wholehearted pushes to move outside of our comfort zone that result in altering not just who …
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I’m spending a few days in a conference with a bunch of coworkers. Nice venue in the desert with all of the amenities that I normally would skip but it was touted as the first in-person event since COVID-19 upset everyone’s plans a couple of years ago. A chance to be normal and face-to-face once …
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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 …
Remember childhood 4th of July celebrations where we ran about the yard waving lighted sparklers, watching the play of brilliant light against a summer twilight? The caution against burning ourselves juxtaposed against our brief joy of racing with bright lights. We were fixed in the moment. Then the time came when the sparkler in your …
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