Across management flavors
Across organizational boundaries; across management flavors of the month: what matters in caring for our elders?
:- Doug.
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If we could know Alzheimer’s
If we could know Alzheimer’s
were in our future
we would respond as we respond to life
accept, fight, despair, proceed in the face
we cannot so far protect people from disease
nor predict their response
nor what possibilities their response might create
:- Doug.
Have you fallen into the common trap
Have you fallen into the common trap
of safety, helplessness, and boredom?
were these living people here
I’d take the side of the breakable pot
against the children who seek to protect
their mothers from life and imagination
we’ve no guarantee and only this one living to do
:- Doug.
Might lead to conversation
Be mindful when I am in a setting that might lead to conversation. Depth is unseen because it is under the surface. At times welcomed. One for the group might extend a welcoming hand.
:- Doug.
Can we learn to converse?
Can we learn to converse? Doubtful. I can only watch how I converse then respond. You can do the same. Work it is, painful, sweaty, rewarding now, a punch in the gut mostly.
:- Doug.
I hear you
I hear you. I see a pattern or have an inkling. I speak. You speak your glimpse. She and he add their guesses. We progress. The process is necessary. Daily we impede, daily we facilitate; mindfully choose.
:- Doug.
Which goes deeper?
Which goes deeper, the individual thinker or persons in conversation? I am coming to the place of saying both are necessary, each has places attained. A leap-frog notion might fit, too. Then again, we know that “conscious” is “knowing together.” Both are necessary.
:- Doug.
