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Gratefulness
I am working on becoming more grateful and mindful.
My dear friend and mentor, Cory. Earlier this year, I found out she is suffering with early-onset Alzheimer’s. I made a special trip back home to visit her in the care facility she had been moved to. It was SO very hard to see this once-vibrant woman starting to slip away. I have known her for about 42 years now. I can’t imagine who I would be had it not been for her presence in my life through my teenage years and beyond.
To a dear friend who I just found out has Alzheimer’s. She has been a key part of my life since I was 12 (I’m now 53). Since I found out that she had been diagnosed two years ago, I haven’t gotten the courage to call and see how she is faring for fear that it will be obvious that she is losing her memory. I went through this with my grandma and it’s such a devastating disease.
Since finding out on the 1st that a dear friend whom I’ve known since I was 12 and I started babysitting for her now has Alzheimers, LOTS of memories have been sustaining me even as she will be losing hers.
By focusing on the current moment.
When I left my last job, my boss had all of my coworkers write down on three slips of paper one word that describes me. She then put them on a piece of our letterhead in random orders and framed it and presented it to me. There were a couple of words that were repeated and one in particular, resilience. She put one of those “resilience”s dead center. Whenever times are tough like when I was looking for a new position or when teaching has gotten particularly tough, I look back at t...
When I left my last job, my boss had all of my coworkers write down on three slips of paper one word that describes me. She then put them on a piece of our letterhead in random orders and framed it and presented it to me. There were a couple of words that were repeated and one in particular, resilience. She put one of those “resilience”s dead center. Whenever times are tough like when I was looking for a new position or when teaching has gotten particularly tough, I look back at that framed piece to remind myself that I AM resilient because certainly my coworkers thought this. It helps when I don’t feel this way. Compassion and faithfulness were other words that got repeated, too.
Cold and very windy here in CO. I feel that I bounce from project to project, idea to idea, and thought to thought, just like the wind right now.
Yes to vaccine! Yes to new leadership!
Thanks for holding my friend in your prayers. I’ve known her about 40 years now…ever since I started babysitting for her when I was about 12 or so.
I’m with you, Kevin. I don’t see January 1st as some magical thing and yet, it does have a slight feeling, this year particularly, of “newness” to it – we’re seeming to “turn a corner” to getting back some sense of normalcy now that there is a vaccine. And yet, then I got a message from a dear friend’s son that his mom has early on-set Alzheimers and I’m feeling heartbroken.
Golden….right in the foothills where the wind is the WORST! We get hurricane blasts of wind at my house.
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