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Tag Archives: Kindness
Adventures in Dementia*land: Part XII
Click here for previous post in this series. Deception as the Kindest Thing As we move closer to The Time (when my mother can no longer live in her own home), it becomes clearer that honesty must cede its high … Continue reading
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Tagged absurd, care for mother, compassionate deception, dementia, Kindness
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Blessing for a Pastoral Care Program
The blessing for this work is inspired by the poem, Kindness, by Naomi Shihab Nye: Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Prayers, Uncategorized, Unitarian Universalism
Tagged Kindness, Naomi Shihab Nye, pastoral care, Unitarian Universalism
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