caregivers
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Days 337-341 – Your Childhood Bedroom
As you reflect on your first bedroom I hope it will bring you kind memories of a place made safe by a mother who was like mine – one that tucked me in, read me stories & listened to my… Continue reading
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Days 331-335 – The House of Memory
Since to be alive is to remember we each occupy Memory’s House. Who lives in yours? Whose images line the walls? Which ghosts whisper down the halls? In our House of Memory live many caregivers. Pick one that will nurture your… Continue reading
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Days 324-328 – Realms of Reflection
Reflections, whether in water or in another’s eyes suggest the original but cannot duplicate it. It is the similarities that fascinate & the variations that challenge. Do we love another because the eyes of mutual love electrify & beautify our… Continue reading
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317-321 – Best Holiday Advice?
Most holidays bring as much disappointment as celebration. Expectations soar so high they are hard to match. Want a successful holiday? Lower expectations & you will instantly raise the likelihood of a joyful Thanksgiving. Continue reading
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Days 310-314 – Glimpses of Heaven
If my occasional glimpses of heaven are true there is no reason to fear dying. In fact, free of worldly suffering it will be good to see you through the afterlife lens. Since I will likely depart before you &… Continue reading
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Days 301-305 – “Tell of the storm-tossed man…”
Tennyson put the right words into Ulysses’s mouth: “Come now, friends, ’tis not too late to seek a newer world.” Time to further engage hard-won learning to craft meaning that transforms the status quo. Something that enriches beauty, light & love… Continue reading
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Days 287 – Are We Gifts from God?
As a child of God you are also a gift from God to the world. How have you unwrapped that gift & given the contents to others? How will you do that today in ways that will change both you… Continue reading
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Days 282-286 – Your Truest Voice
Frank Sinatra, Jr. (a classmate in the early 1950s) so successfully mimicked his dad’s voice that he never found his own. So many of our truths are drowned because we are afraid to speak them. The greatest value of an… Continue reading
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Days 275-279 – Impressions
The early impressionist painters taught us to see differently. Impressionism can also teach caregivers that every patient offers a surface impression hiding countless layers of humanity. Healing is a vast abstract painting. Learning its secrets requires deep devotion. Continue reading
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Days 268-272 – “Room at the Top of the World”
Our “room at the top of the world” is not a thousand miles away but within – or not at all. I have found mine & I ain’t comin’ down. Continue reading
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