Category Archives: Alzheimer’s and other dementias
Party
Party. Old Friends. Moving away. Saying good bye. Saying. Talking. Bob’s heart attack. Reading Old Testament. Bloody battles. Slaughtering tribes. Joyce’s broken wrist. Drive her to church. Less grey hair all around. More white. Bruce has cancer in his good … Continue reading
mind with age grows hollow
The person’s mind with age grows hollow This is when we should them hallow For empty is the greater part of whole :- Doug.
Dragging them back?
If people do not come back from dementia why spend so much time trying to drag them back? Ought we instead go forward? :- Doug.
With us, lost
With us, lost :- Doug.
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scary to think
It’s scary to think getting lost is the way worse to have someone tell us even more to have them take us by the hand :- Doug.
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feared the first day of school
Dementia might house wisdom even further growth some of us feared that first day of school :- Doug.
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Alzheimer’s does not have to be dis-ease
Alzheimer’s does not have to be a dis-ease. What if it were a going further? What if the plaques and tangles were growth of the person? What if we are so blind that years from now people will shake their … Continue reading
truly patient
Says the Alzheimer’s truly patient with Rumi There is a field out beyond knowing I’ll take you there We are frightened this one is not :- Doug.
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If to be alive has value
If to be alive has value to experience to see your mortality then a person of accumulating years and loosening mind is worthy for us to engage :- Doug.
loosed of her mind
Where can the person by Alzheimer’s loosed of her mind take us if we let loose of our needs? Is there some place more profound than we know? :- Doug.
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Alzheimer’s Development?
May we call it Alzheimer’s Development? :- Doug.
Alzheimer’s stage
Maybe Alzheimer’s is not a disease A stage of human development Beyond :- Doug.
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our comfort
Disorientation may be our comfort. :- Doug.
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Who is a human being…?
Who is a human being when mind and memory are out of the picture? :- Doug.
whom we thought
We are not whom we thought we were Nor whom we might have wanted to be Yet here we are and we may then Find new selves in meeting birthed :- Doug.
now the process has become visible to us
Persons grow out of meeting: meeting-relation is the primary thing and the persons secondary and generated. What this leads me to is that the person is not the brain, the brain is not the person, and that more fundamental than … Continue reading