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Who’s to blame? | The Dopamine Diaries
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Candid reflections on dementia caregiving with a holistic bent- let's change the future! About The Dopamine Diaries. 8220;Crisis” Care or Peace? Mom may be leaving us this week. →. Who’s to blame? August 13, 2012. What about leaving her sitting in front of a blank blue TV screen? How about finding her pants are soaked, when I have no idea when it happened? Forgetting to put her feet back on the footrests so her legs hang unsupported and lose their feeling? I remind myself that these tired youngsters are ...
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Small Meadow Press: thinking, dreaming and doing....
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Tuesday, August 9, 2011. Thinking, dreaming and doing. Back in February, when I last wrote here, I was realizing just how little I could take on beyond tending home and family and looking towards the Summer to figure out about Small Meadow Press. Well here is August speeding along and I see no sign of anything papery coming out of my studio.beyond my calendar that received a proper cover after my last post and goes with me everywhere now. I am still pondering that possibility. Posted by Lesley Austin.
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In the Garden | The Dopamine Diaries
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Candid reflections on dementia caregiving with a holistic bent- let's change the future! About The Dopamine Diaries. September 22, 2012. Thank you for your kind comments and emails. As you probably guessed, Mom is no longer with us. I have some things I’d like to share about the intense time in late August, during and after her death, but not now. On the copy of her legal will in the metal box with all her important papers, she had hand-scrawled an addition at the top of the cover page twenty years ago.
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Small Meadow Press: a little advent sale
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010. A little advent sale. Welcome to the first little sale at my blog! Below you will find all the offerings that I have. At this time, with the quantity I have of each. Except the calendar, until I run out of paper,. I will gladly make as many of these as you. After you browse through the offerings,. Please send me an email at:. I will be here, receiving the emails, adjusting. Inventory, keeping the kettle on the boil for. Restorative cups of tea and coffee.and just. That I coul...
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Small Meadow Press: November 2011
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Saturday, November 19, 2011. Closing a window, opening a door. I know it's usually the other way round.but as Small Meadow Press feels so very insubstantial right now, and the possibilities of what I am creating online seem so spacious.it fits. Besides, I so love all that opening a door evokes. But first, to the closing of a window. So in the next few weeks,. New Years Day will find me waiting by that door, ready to welcome you in. Posted by Lesley Austin. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Shadow Pearls: April 2012
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Monday, April 30, 2012. She said I did not have to do it. But I could hardly imagine not doing it. The Hospice nurse that showed up at my door early Sunday afternoon was a new face, it being a Sunday and all. She was extremely welcomed because having someone in charge was important at that particular time to all of us. Gratitude for a precious relationship,. And sadness that it is over,. All combined with relief that frailty and pain are gone. Links to this post. Saturday, April 28, 2012. Against every d...
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Shadow Pearls: May 2012
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012. The other side of the road. I have decided rather than close this space since my role of caregiver has ended, I will instead post on other aspects of being a caregiver to elderly parents. I am looking at it from having traveled and reached the other side and maybe, just maybe, I can provide encouragement to those who are still walking that unique road. Would I have changed anything, the manner in which I acted or the processes I mentally and emotionally walked through? And so we ...
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Shadow Pearls: in the lilacs
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015. I knew my Mother's presence as a constant in my life for more than fifty years. Now that I know her absence in the same way, and I will know it as long as I live. But more important than either knowledge is her place in my heart, which does not change.". I raised the window as I sat here in the sewing room today, and I breathed deeply. I was hoping to capture a whiff of the newly blooming lilacs. Remembering is sweet. Remembering is difficult. Karen @ Pieces of Contentment.
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Shadow Pearls: April 2013
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Monday, April 29, 2013. Journal entry dated April 29, 2012. One year ago today, my mother died. I have used this space for the past week to record some of the writings, or scribblings, in my journal of a year ago. And I write these words "warm temperatures predicted" because yesterday was downright cool- cloudy too. The dismal edge hung inside my soul too. An up and down day. Sat with Mother most of the day yesterday. I can't imagine four weeks like this! She was totally unresponsive- one short gasp- not...
