I have always admired the wisdom of my elders – my parents, older priests, and elderly mentors who have guided me on the path to maturity. As I move into my 70s, I find myself ripening into maturity and becoming the older mentor I always searched for. I have discovered the … [Read more...] about How to Look at the Bright Side
Positive Mental Thinking
10 Ways to Visit Someone Who is Stuck At Home (A balloon might be a perfect thing to take)
When Katherine Autin’s husband was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2004, she didn’t know much about the disease except for what she had heard from stars like Michael J. Fox and Muhammad Ali. Faced with this mysterious and complicated disease, Katherine began to learn as much as she … [Read more...] about 10 Ways to Visit Someone Who is Stuck At Home (A balloon might be a perfect thing to take)
Granddaughter finds ways to engage her loved ones and manage her own stress.
Natasha Reece has been acting as a caregiver for her grandfather, Jerry Whelan, who has frontotemporal dementia, since November 2020 after his wife, Alma, was admitted to the hospital with COVID-19. The family looked into hiring outside help, but the costs were quite high. It … [Read more...] about Granddaughter finds ways to engage her loved ones and manage her own stress.
When Disappointment Rains Down
How to live victoriously anyway.It has been said that every person’s life is a diary in which he or she means to write one story, and is forced to write another. That is, we plan for one way; we are forced to travel another. But what shall we say of those crushing … [Read more...] about When Disappointment Rains Down
The Journey Alone: The person who cannot stand to be alone should seek to discover why.
Somewhere I read the riddle:As I was going to Saint Ives, I met a man with seven wives.Every wife had seven sacks. Every sack had seven cats.Every cat had seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks, wives –How many were going to Saint Ives?I was never very good at math and trying to make all … [Read more...] about The Journey Alone: The person who cannot stand to be alone should seek to discover why.