Caring For Aging Parents Support Group
Caring for aging parents can be a difficul time as we become the caretakers for our parents. This broad responsibility can encompass such services as assisted living, adult day care, long term care, nursing homes, hospice care, and in-home care. Whether you have just started caring for your parents or just need a place to talk, we're here.
A great teacher balled up a fist and stuck the pointing finger in an upwards position. The great teacher asked a good student to describe the hand. The good student said the teacher had his hand in a fist and his finger was pointing up.
The teacher then, keeping the hand exactly the same, except for turning the hand so that the finger was pointing down asked the student to describe the hand now.
The student said that now the finger and hand are in a downwards position.
The teacher said but it's still the same hand, still with curled fingers, still with one finger straight. The teacher told his students that there are those out there who only see that the finger is down or up, and do not pay attention to the other details of that hand, just like those who see the world in terms of WRONG or RIGHT. He said those people are like ones who see one small bubble in a foam from the ocean and think they understand the entire ocean and believe they have seen everything that exists within the ocean. He said those people are to be greatly pitied.
The teacher then, keeping the hand exactly the same, except for turning the hand so that the finger was pointing down asked the student to describe the hand now.
The student said that now the finger and hand are in a downwards position.
The teacher said but it's still the same hand, still with curled fingers, still with one finger straight. The teacher told his students that there are those out there who only see that the finger is down or up, and do not pay attention to the other details of that hand, just like those who see the world in terms of WRONG or RIGHT. He said those people are like ones who see one small bubble in a foam from the ocean and think they understand the entire ocean and believe they have seen everything that exists within the ocean. He said those people are to be greatly pitied.
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I invited Bill to have dinner with me last Sunday. He wasn't willing to drive 7 hours to mid Michigan and teased me with his beautiful ribs!!! So, of course I ate alone and had cedar salmon
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check out that smoke ring. It tasted really good. I smothered it with Maulls BBQ sauce which is Local to St. Louis and one of the best I ever had.....
I just dont subscribe to the teachings of one-fourth preparation, 3-fourths theater! Thats my opinion only.
I've been in situations where swearing is not only "mandatory", it is the only way that a person will be taken seriously. I've also been in situations where mild swearing will make you an outcast, never to be taken seriously.
For me, I take it in context as best I can. If Mrs. Pepper swears, she is very intensely upset. That lets her say a lot with a few words. I have a friend IRL who, no matter what he says, if he does not swear he is not mad.