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Published March 14, 2020. My 89-year-old father, Charles Hahn, has dementia. Last week, the memory care residence he recently moved to closed to all visitors, as have most around the country. The next morning he fell. There is a fracture in his neck, and although it is very small, he will need to wear a collar for the next three months. He has been moved … Continue reading To My Father (by Marsha)
(If you’d like to read past posts, please check out our home page.) ~ Pat Years ago I met a man named Ezra who described to me a nightingale that sang to him during a very dark period in his life. Here’s his story. I met Ezra at a bar mitzvah where Marsha and I were seated next to him and his wife at dinner. He … Continue reading Getting Through the Darkness
Where do the poor find wealth? Amazon’s recent adventure in New York turned out to be a kind of morality play for me. I found myself thinking how hard it is to turn down the promise of wealth and how easy it is to get mesmerized by the lure of great riches. So when the New York community pushed back against Amazon hard enough that … Continue reading Poor Man’s Wealth
Every now and again a story comes along and serves as a mirror to my inner life. Good stories allow me to put a face to my thoughts. Sometimes the face so resembles me it’s scary, funny, illuminating, and maybe even healing. This little fable on catastrophic thinking made me laugh, cry, and scream all at the same time, and turned the mirror on my … Continue reading From Catastrophe to Change
Albert Schweitzer said, “There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.” I walked out my front door the other day and a black cat crossed my path. Not being superstitious I thought nothing of it, and yet I was a little mesmerized by the silky, stealthy beauty of this marvelous creature. Say what you will about cats, they … Continue reading Cats: A Refuge from Misery