I’ve been up in Oregon for a week and a half with my mom while she’s in the hospital with Dementia. We’ve found an assisted living facility for her. We hope to move her in tomorrow. Being in the hospital is very confusing for her, and I hope she begins to feel better in the […]
My mom has dementia
My mom is sick. When I found out, I rush drove up from San Francisco to Oregon on Friday. What had happened was she had fallen and was confused and slurring her words. An ambulance took her to the hospital. When I got there the hospital staff told me she has dementia. I was surprised. […]
The glory of simple unnoticed things
When I was in college, I took a three month course in the Philippines. We stayed in the outskirts where it was difficult to get a lot of things. The most difficult item to find was hangers. I didn’t bring any hangers with me because I figured there would be hangers. I had a closet […]
The whisper
We have whispers in us. A quiet voice that is our nature. It’s our sound, our rhythm and vibration. We hear it when we listen inwardly. It’s simple. It’s anti-complex. It’s brief. We’re trained early on to turn our attention outward. And what’s out there is noisy. It’s easy to miss our whisper. It helps […]