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iMotherStories: Santa was a Old Woman
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Dementia, identity and real time caring. Friday, December 12, 2008. Santa was a Old Woman. Milan, Italy - Holiday 2002/2003. Even for tough, entrepreneurial, prairie women, our previous year had been a pestilence. I wanted to see beauty again. We journeyed to Italy in mid winter and post holidays. But we found the Italians were not finished celebrating. Leave it to them to extend the art of festival to early January. If you can love that face the world changes. The third and most astounding epiphany was ...
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iMotherStories: Letting go of a melody
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Dementia, identity and real time caring. Tuesday, October 18, 2011. Letting go of a melody. Betty's eyes were set deeper than the night before. She is having trouble speaking (when she is motivated to do so.). She spoke several times that night - the most memorable to me was when Joy the lovely hospice angel asked her "Betty, do you have any pain? Betty is on morphine now to ease her anxiety - mostly. Betty is trying to let go now - I think. Hi, Betty. How are you? What are you doing? Oh, Betty." Mar...
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iMotherStories: August 2012
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Dementia, identity and real time caring. Tuesday, August 28, 2012. Waiting for a time. I have lost hope in the future and it is a good thing. The death of my business. This month has shown me that I spend most of my time living in a elsewhere future world. In six years, it has never supported me, so why not? Is also among the dearly departed but mostly it is the death-rattle of my intimate and chronic future tense thinking that is revelatory. Pay off the credit cards. When my mother was alive and I was c...
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iTalking Cat: Larkin Poe @ Haight and Strader sang for their Lyft today
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Non-dualistic spiritual and economic journeys. Larkin Poe @ Haight and Strader sang for their Lyft today. I have had some amazing moments of being a Lyft Driver over the last 5 months - that I keep promising to write about.today is that quantum leap that has inspired me to keep my promise - if only to myself. It started, this morning, with a bit of self-care hooky: "O.K. God, if you want me to play more, give me a sweet parking place near Sharon Meadow so I can go to Alice's Now and Zen. I got into my ca...
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iNatureStories: The Presidio Flower Memorial
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Aphorisms in the way of walking. The Presidio Flower Memorial. In my daily sojourns into the Presidio National park, I observe how nature moves through the city. The funny thing about this two year long walking tale is that it is about humans that I do not know and mostly have never seen. I only find their leavings. The tale begins on the last day of a young runner’s life. A detective intercepted me – asking questions about an unidentified young woman who was hit and left for dead on Washington Blvd.
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iNatureStories: Mockingbirds and Xhosa Cat calls
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Aphorisms in the way of walking. Mockingbirds and Xhosa Cat calls. 23 June 2004 - (this was published as a shorter version in a KQED Perspective). Gophers operate the lowest tactical undercover missions tunneling into the earth. These result in mysterious disappearances of individuals in my planted rows. It is like some inverse straw that sucks the plant and air down into the earth leaving a neat little round hole where the plant use to be. Learning how to get out of my way…. Adventures in non-dualism...
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iNatureStories: Walk with the Mockingbirds
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Aphorisms in the way of walking. Walk with the Mockingbirds. Published as a KQED Perspective 4/10/08). I stop and listen. Mockingbirds mimic the sounds they take a fancy too. This guy is strutting and singing to find his femme of the season. I detect in his song - a raven’s squawk, a red tailed hawk’s cry and perhaps even a wild parrot. We look at each other. Suddenly the breeze was sweet and heavy and cool like spring buds. Learning how to get out of my way…. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Adventur...
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iMotherStories: The beginning of the end...hospice
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Dementia, identity and real time caring. Wednesday, May 11, 2011. The beginning of the end.hospice. We had such a lovely visit yesterday - just being. We watched "the Ghost Whisperer" and muted the commercials. During which, I told her how much I (and the whole array of framed pictures) loved her. I read her a few favorite Hafiz poems. It is all I know to do. It is lightening to see my mother get such care. Pretty smart way to live. Lessons everywhere - "Everyone is God Talking. Let's be polite and l...
