Reflections on loss and life. The price we pay for love is grief. The death of a long-term friend raises lots of questions and challenges. Although I am now in the “My Aged Care” generation, I like to think of myself as being in midlife, provided I live to be 140! As...
One of our church members, who I’ll call Jim, has been having a clean out. Not just your run of the mill, “We have too much stuff” type of cleanout, but the one you have when you sell up the family farm and there is 90 years of “This will be useful one-day” and “This...
In our everyday life remembering is the norm. We expect to be able to remember things, faces, names, and events. We make heroes of people with exceptional memory. We get worried when we have a “senior’s moment” and forget things we know that we really know, but for...
That’s not how I remember it. How many times have I said that when family gets together and we recite the war stories of our childhood. Stories of holiday adventures, mishaps and accidents. Stories of fights, sibling rivalry and tears before bedtime. Who said what....
Rarely a day goes by without some contemporary of mine moaning to me: ‘Oh, my memory’s going!’ Perhaps they have misplaced their keys or forgotten a name or an appointment. Often they will stop and, with a sheepish smile, say: ‘Ah – a Senior’s...
