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• Dementia Journal – February 9, 2019

  February 10, 2019

  It’s a quiet Saturday night in early February and I’m sitting here on the sofa with Mom listening to some relaxing music and my new, lighted Zen waterfall. It’s very peaceful. The home aide left at 5:30, so it’s been a rather long evening. I can’t go upstairs to read, and I can’t jump in…

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• Dementia Journal, January 13, 2019

  January 16, 2019

    9:30 pm Lately I’m starting to feel as if I’m on the final leg of this long descent into night of Mom’s struggle with dementia. Her vitals and blood sugar levels continue to be good for the most part, but she seems to be fading. But even with her mental capacity so diminished, she…

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• Dementia Journal, December 24, 2018

  December 30, 2018

  I’ve been in an upbeat mood this Christmas season, decorating our tree for the first time and buying a lot of Christmas-related items for Mom such as small Christmas bears and singing snowmen, and lots of little Christmasy things to put under our little tree. I have been so much more in the Chris...

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• Fathers and sons

  December 23, 2018

      I’ve debated and struggled with the topic of this entry for several weeks now. I need to write it and yet I can’t seem to start writing it. I’ve written out portions of it in my mind; I’ve tossed out ideas. It’s very hard because it’s a very sensitive subject: my late father…

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• What a beautiful world!

  November 23, 2018

  Two recent sunset photos taken about a week apart at two of my favorite sunset locations near where I live.   I just had to share these pictures with you that I took recently with my iPhone   At both locations very close to where I live, there are often gorgeous sunsets to behold and…

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• Dementia Journal — November 13, 2018 — Unnatural disasters

  November 13, 2018

    As I begin to write this I’m listening to Thad Fiscella’s hauntingly beautiful album, “Vast.” But I’ve been reading compulsively all day about the surreal wildfires in California, which one resident who escaped the Camp Fire with her life called, “apocalyptic. “ That’s just one part of the...

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• The scariest headline I’ve ever read

  November 5, 2018

    It’s been a little over three weeks but the shock has not worn off. It’s as if there was a time before the headline and then there is now, after the news, when the future seems much less certain and life as we know it, even just a couple of decades ahead, is emphatically…

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• Worlds to come

  October 5, 2018

  October 3, 2018 I feel in myself the future life. I am like a forest which has been more than once cut down. The new shoots are livelier then ever. I am rising toward the sky. The sunshine is on my head. The earth gives me its generous sap, but Heaven lights me with its…

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• Dementia Journal — Storms — Sept. 20, 2018

  September 21, 2018

  Dementia Journal — Storms — Sept. 20, 2018 I’m lying in bed upstairs relaxing tonight, listening to some soothing music. There’s no baby monitor on. I don’t have to listen out for Mom because our new caregiver is here until 9 pm. She’s so good with Mom I wish she could work every night, but…

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