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How to design your life in elderhood

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1725

Do not seek to be in charge
Be in the assembly
Grasp & tussle not
Only guide
One voice among
One simple foolish loving voice
Among

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Take charge of your elder years.

:- Doug.

Boring places: nursing homes. Stimulation free. Done to and for. No initiative enlisted. No art work. No Kaffeeklatsch. No conversation. No reminiscing nor reflection. No classes nor learning. No children. Few animals. No interaction. Factory-style arrangement to dispense meds, diapers, and showers. But no humanity. No life. No bright colors, no interesting shapes. No library. No gathering places. No places to meet the real world, its peoples, its life. Sit there and be bored. To death. Few jokes, laughter, smiles. Where are the hugs, the back rubs, the touches? The cooking, the tending of gardens and pets? Life? Imagination? Of staff, too? Events? Why the wilting of spirit?

:- Doug.

Elders can save the world! Or maybe just a grandchild.

:- Doug.

Every day closer to death.

:- Doug.