Sharing wisdom that comes from parenting our parents
In a caregiving relationship, there is more to the story than just helping another person with their problems. There is an intimacy between people that comes with this sort of relationship and there is something more. There is that ominous something else in the room. Something only glimpsed out of the corner of the eye. …
Life has been quite a ride lately. From a pandemic to abuses of public trust, we have all been through a lot. Little bits of “normal” have been thankfully creeping back in. Taking a quick inventory of how people are interacting in this new version of “normal" has been enlightening, however. So many things have …
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If caregiving teaches us nothing else, it is that each and everyone of us is capable of being resilient. That ability to weather whatever Life has to serve up and come back smiling. In a very real sense, the recent pandemic has provided just such a caregiving challenge. As with any such a challenge, it …
In my younger days of competitive bicycling, keeping up with the group was an important part of your survival on two wheels. Lose contact with fellow riders and you lose your support. If I was having a bad day, I remember slowly drifting off the back of the group, lacking the necessary energy to pedal …
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