As always, there are still a few things to do when someones life ends, a few loose ends, a few things you’d wished you’d always done, a few things you wished you’d never done, a few people who wished they had seen you more often, a few people who you wish you had seen more…
As the symptoms of dementia are changing again, once more I search for new meaning in my life. New ways to find joy in my heart and new ways to see what is happening as a gift. Right now, I feel more fearful than joyous, and I’m having trouble remembering there have been many gifts…
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, Night and day, to make you just like everyone else Means to fight the greatest battle there is to fight, and never stop fighting. e.e. Cummings I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s…
Aged about 4, my youngest son said; “Mummy, what is it with you and shoes!!!” This was after yet another visit to a shoe shop, not necessarily to purchase any, but to drool over them. My middle name could well have been Imelda, as I do love shoes. I really dislike almost all other shopping,…
Life, love, loss Life is for living and loving Loss and trauma gets in the way At worst we simply bear it At best we embrace loss and trauma Learn to live with it with passion Turning it into new understanding A chance to transform our experience Of heartache into happiness Find ways to live…
Australian Ageing Agenda article published 6 December 2012; Wide support for euthanasia: poll, By Natasha Egan More than four in five Australian adults support reform of voluntary euthanasia laws and almost a quarter of would change their vote if their usual election candidate opposed reform, according to a poll commissioned by advocacy organization YourLastRight.com… read…
BE PART OF THE SOLUTION HELP STOP THE FACTORY FARMING OF OUR PETS Puppy factories are the cruel hidden industry behind the pet shop window and glossy internet sites. The reality is mother dogs are kept confined and pregnant their entire lives to meet the unceasing demand of the pet industry. When their reproductive life…
Two days ago a friend (KB) who had a 100% no-ironing policy sent a message on her Facebook page that she was so excited about a friend coming to visit this weekend, she ironed the pillowcases for the guest bed!!! It seemed a wonderful distraction from the effort of paddling to achieve my other meaningful activities, and write…
It is another day of wondering, ‘What the hell is happening to my brain?’ I’m unsure if the changing symptoms of dementia that seem to be taking place can be averted, or if finding new strategies is going to rev my brain back into action. I’m finding the paddling is not working so well, and in…
The following TED talk Why not you? is by Janine Shepherd. Thankyou Worrywort for sharing it. I have read Janine’s book Never Tell Me Never twice, and found it incredibly inspiring, and this TED talk lives up to her book in every way. Janine was an elite athlete, who had a major accident and became a…
The research report for the project ‘Service and Support Requirements of People with Younger Onset Dementia and their Families’ has been publicly released by the NSW Government – Ageing, Disability and Home Care (ADHC) – and is now available at ADHC. In 2011, ADHC engaged Alzheimer’s Australia NSW to research the service and support requirements…
A girlfriend sent me this by email, and my husband and my youngest son were horrified as they thought I’d be offended by it. I, on the other hand laughed so hard I cried!! One never knows how another person will react or respond, and so we should never assume. Of course, assume really means ‘to make an ass out…
Over twenty years ago I attended a motivational conference in Melbourne, and the keynote speakers were Skip and Susan Ross. Skip Ross is the owner, founder, and director of Circle A Ranch, and he and his wife Susan have dedicated their lives to making a difference through this ministry. They are Crown IBO’s with Amway,…
Another video link sent to me a few days ago via a message on my website contact form, to an amazing debate about pain. Thanks Alex Kealy. Havi Carel is on the panel, and it was her book, Illness that this book Learning life from illness stories was inspired from and in which I wrote Chapter…
It seems the paddling is really becoming more challenging, and in fact a whole lot harder, lots more flapping of the wings and paddling of my feet! Because of this, I feel I have had to rationalise a few things I’ve been doing and somehow try to work out what to give up or let…
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