Mother wants to party
An homage to my 101 year old mother who loves a party.
Daughters Day…
Before today I had never heard of it. But apparently it is a real thing. Daughters Day. It will one day be as important as Mothers Day which is a totally “made up” Holiday that has never been very important to me. Every day Mothers give whole heartedly to their children. Every day they love them more than they love themselves. Every second they worry about them when they are small, and as they get bigger the worries grow with…
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My Memory is Pretty Good
Musing about the fact that as I get older I have more to remember than ever before. My memory is better than I thought.
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Grateful every single morning
So this will be short. A picture is worth one thousand words, isn’t it? And I have a couple that show the way I feel when the sun is just up and my time is my own before others awaken. Our mornings have been spectacular the last few days. Awe-inspiring and just lovely. For me, they produce a rush of gratitude for being alive. Not everyone I love is able to experience this natural beauty. Both my mother and my…
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I Will Find a Way or Make One
Holton-Arms School is my Alma Mater. Miss Lurton and Miss Brown were my first mentors, and they were admirable women. I revered them and tried to live a life of which they would have approved. When I went back to college at 50 to get my BA in psychology, it made me smile to think of how Miss Brown would feel. She would be happy to know I did this at last, late in life. Of course, now I realize…
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It is all messy
Today I saw an Instagram meme from Share and Inspire that just made my day!!! It spoke of one of those UNspoken truths that everyone resists in spite of the TRUTH of it. Life is messy. And it is wonderful, so we need to get over the desire to make everything neat and tidy. It just frustrates us. Something I learned about myself years ago surprised me. I am a closet perfectionist. It is so nice to walk into a…
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Mother, lately…
There she sits at the head of the octagonal breakfast table, looking like a Fairy Queen. Someone said she is more beautiful now than she was 20 years ago and it is true. I don?t know if it is because EVERYONE tells her how lovely she is. Or is it a trick of nature? Whatever the reason she is a real beauty. But she is fading mentally so fast that every day there is more evidence of it. She is…
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Care-givers, I hear you!
The trials and tribulations of family as they navigate the world of caregiving for a parent.
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Meditations
Excellent conversation and correspondence about today’s issues
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The 4th Quarter
Inspirational piece about re-inventing your life in the 4th quarter.
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Hypocrisy
Sadly this country seems to have lost it’s mind. We are prisoners of our own ridiculous new rules. People seem to have forgotten common sense completely. Herd mentality and venal accusations against anyone on the other side of an argument fills the news.
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A Puppy for 99 yr old Mother
After some deliberation we bought a puppy for our 99 year old mother. And it was a great success.
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Danger, this subject may make you feel uncomfortable.
It is time to ask the difficult questions about end of life decisions.
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Gratitude
Thursday, Feb 21, 2019 Gratitude I am spending a weekend in the country, at an adorable cottage on my daughter’s farm, near The Plains, VA. The weather has gone from a temperature of 67 degrees when I arrived on Friday, to a…
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The Journey Continues
Musings about the progress of parents aging over the last decades of their lives. It changes us, the caregivers just as they are also changed.
