Tuesday, October 05, 2010

timelines

Some people don't have them at the other end of their lives; I get this impression whenever I go to see my mother in her new living situation. Time gets fragmented, smudged, spotty for the elderly people in her house. It is often said that the very old "live in the present", but that's not quite right. Even from moment to moment time is not reliable for them. The taste of a chocolate truffle may not even last through its consumption; one lady forgot she had it in her mouth and started to choke. I think there's a need for life's end coaches as well as ones for regular life, to get all the way through the various processes. Takes a village to help a person live to the end, whenever it might be.
Only a week in our timeline until we must face brass tacks and take the sorcerer squarely by the horns...

3 Comments:

Anonymous Phil said...

and make the fucker submit to our will. Triplet Indemnity.

11:39 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I read this article this morning, and thought maybe you might find it interesting.
End of Life

12:17 PM  
Blogger isabelita said...

He will be our willing thrall!

robin a, thanks for that link. I started it, will finish it in pieces.

1:51 PM  

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