Add to them delighted - that a friend posted the following description just before I head down to the Leading to Well-Being Conference. How delightful to head down with such a confidence booster!
from Adrienne's blog -
"Deev Murphy, bless her heart, called me up yesterday (Monday) to tell me that she and my dad had been talking about how he hadn’t really seen any any spring flowers yet. She wanted to let me know that there were some crocuses on Runnymede Avenue in Jenkintown. (Deev didn’t know the cross street; I think it’s Mytle). This is the sort of think that Deev, having found her calling in taking care of elders with mild to moderate dementia has focused in on. When you can’t hold an idea in your head for very long, when things hurt, when you aren’t very steady on your feet and the options of dancing, or fornicating, or late nights are over, you can still look for the first flowers of spring. She knows this and so when one of her clients is yearning to see flowers, Deev looks for flowers."
Gives special joy that she sees a rather peculiar - in a good way - strength. Most of our client's families say, "How wonderful that you enjoy jazz - or baseball - or dogs - or crocuses, just like s/he does," never realizing I take my cue from them. I keep my eye out for the jazz-infused music event, the afternoon game at a local high school, the dog park, even the bank of purple crocus. While some of them might not really be my personal cup of tea, I have the joy of seeing an older friend's face light up watching pooches playing catch with devoted humans, listening to a terrific song, cheering as the catcher tags an out - or glories in the beauty of early spring flowers.
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