The World Is Too Much With Us…
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay was te our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
These famous lines…
Reason To Hope Update
Here is the link to the new order page on my art website where you can order Reason To Hope and The Last Time notecard boxes. …
Reason To Hope
This is my second deck of 10 front-folded note cards with envelopes. The deck is entitled Reason To Hope. These new paintings honor nature’s transformative beauty despite the dire predictions of a dark future. Granted, the long odds against turning…
Secrets: A Powerful Form Of Control
Last Stories: Adult Children as Legacy Coaches
“People attend, remember, and are transformed by stories…
Mary Pipher from Writing to Change the World
Stories have a profound impact on our lives. On one level, our identity is the summation of our stories. When our aging parents enter…
Divine Construct
Between the mundane and the horrific lies a divine construct trying to signal us reassurance and hope that there is a bigger game at play here, one that your heart will recognize and draw courage from as we make our…
Reset Expectations
The challenges of caring for an aging parent are exhaustive and quickly exceed the capacity of one person.
Caregivers need to adopt realistic and sustainable expectations about their capacity to avoid sacrificing their health for unattainable goals.
Acknowledging limits on…
And then an aging parent moves in…
When an aging parent moves in, no one can predict how it will work out. What looks good in the beginning can come undone in sudden and distressing ways.
Adult children need to frame moving in as “one step” in…
Family Rules are not a level playing field for Caregivers
Families are complex systems where minor changes can produce major consequences at any time and with out warning.
Accepting this reality as an immutable law of the world of aging parents helps prevents exhaustive efforts to prevent them from happening. …
Social Fabric: The Key to Senior’s Quality of Life….
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.—Aristotle
After completing one of these Social Fabric Mind Maps you can suggest and provide more recreational activities, social outreach, and other ways to provide social support…