Below is the final statement from Gisela Webb’s 2001 article INTIMATIONS OF THE GREAT UNLEARNING: INTERRELIGIOUS SPIRITUALITY AND THE DEMISE OF CONSCIOUSNESS WHICH IS ALZHEIMER’S I can’t stop rereading her 5000+ words. They approach thoughts I wish I would be able to articulate. I plan to explore all her references… “I call Alzheimer’s the great … Continue reading
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Monet refuses the operation
Doctor, you say there are no haloes around the streetlights in Paris and what I see is an aberration caused by old age, an affliction. I tell you it has taken me all my life to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels, to soften and blur and finally banish the edges you … Continue reading
Far from Brooklyn
«I have to go. I need to go home. It’s getting late. My family does not know where I am. I should call my mother. I feel bad that I did not call her. She must wonder where I am. Maybe she is dead. She is very old. –When was the last time you saw … Continue reading
FORGETTING IS VASTLY UNDERRATED
Commenting on the minuscule pedestrian in the distant street framed by the window, trying to clean a black dot on the linoleum floor, calling out to show me a glamorous Marie Claire ad: looking for clues. Everything is equally interesting and meaningful. Is it living in the present? Is the classification system defective? Unexpectedly I … Continue reading
Soul2Soul Seniors 