The Memory Walk yesterday hosted by Alzheimer’s Taiwan was nothing short of spectacular. This picture is of some of the Aussies there, including our CEO, Glenn Rees, and Maree McCabe, the CEO of Alzheimer’s Victoria. There were over 4000 people from many countries around the world. One chap representing Hungary, two delightful girls representing Prague, and…
It is Day 20 of my National Poetry Writing Month challenge, and this is the haiku I wrote for today; I am who I am. It is the final in a series of three. I’ve been trying to have some sort of social commentary or dialogue throughout the poems, or at least have a bit…
I really want a Like button on the comments my readers make on my blog posts. These days I simply do not have the mental energy to respond to every single comment, which was once a goal of mine. But there are so many comments I like, I would like to hit the Like button! And in…
We’ve travelled all day from Kuala Lumpur to Taipei. The flight was just over 4 hours, but we were up at 5am as the traffic to the airport was already frantic by 6.30am! Then waiting around until departure at 9.30. There are 3 million cars owned in KL, and around 1-1.5 million drive into the…
We’re in Kuala Lumpur, rested and enjoying two days of recreation and inspiration. It is a busy city, and the Petronas twin towers eerily remind me of the twin towers at The World Trade Centre, but more beautiful. The Petronas Towers in KL were the tallest in the world from 1998 to 2004, and the Burj Khalifa…
I love this picture, and the name of the food stall… these boys are hardly fat!! We’re in Adelaide airport waiting for our flight to Kuala Lumpur where we have two whole days to enjoy the sights. Mostly though, I’m really looking forward to the food!! In fact I’ve been drooling ever since we booked…
For the times I want to indulge myself with some R&R, I spend time trawling other blogs, many that I subscribe to. I often read something called the Oracle Report provided on a link from One World Rising, and one phrase today stood out like the proverbial dogs balls!!! It has given life to a draft I had started…
Reverse the roles… this could be Mum visiting me in a Residential Aged Care Facility… (image from Google, not of my mother and I!) Some time ago Kay Bransford asked me this question: “We recently had to force my parents into Assisted Living. Everyone around them tried to recommend changes to get them the assistance they needed and…
Here is the link to some of the speeches from the Younger Onset Dementia: A new horizon 2013 summit. I can only have faith the enormous effort, and the toll it took on me, and I am sure the other people with dementia and their loving family supporters will be worth it. Glenn Rees, the CEO of Alzheimer’s…
For almost my whole life I had dreamed of attending an opera at Teatro alla Scala , and in 2011, we were there. It wasn’t an opera, but a modern ballet as it was the only performance available the time we were there, but it was enough. Just being there was enough. I have little…
Since ADI 2012 in London, I have maintained contact with a few people I met from Scotland, many who are members of the Scottish Dementia Working Group. This is the eleventh year they have been operating, and they are a powerful voice and strong advocates for all people with dementia, as well as a wonderful…
This is probably the daily question for many people around the world, especially those of us who are writing about very personal issues! My private blog gets a real blast, where there is no holding back, no worrying about offending others, or being told my feelings are wrong, or being told off, as some bleaders…
I’ve been reminded over the weekend (thanks Mandy S) of a woman called Anne Davis Bastings, author of a wonderful book Forget Memory. Mandy also alerted me to Anne’s TimeSlip’s Creative Storytelling program and I recommend you have a look. There is another version of this type of storybook called Storybird and the poem created…
With the diagnosis of a terminal illness, mortality gets to sit at your table, right next to the knife and fork, up close and personal, whispering messages that you might die much sooner than you thought. You do not get to continue to view death from the large platform called life, but from the edge of…
The scariest moment is always just before you start. (Stephen King) The optimist will always find a way to start, the pessimist will always find a way to put it off. I am inherently an optimist, I see the good in situations and people, and usually quickly find a positive solution to everything that comes…
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