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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.