HeyJaredCuriosity Focused
Alchemizing words, photography and art into a bridge between the pain of silence and the healing path of sharing and connecting. I'm following my curiosity, while navigating life after seventeen years of caregiving for my Mom through Alzheimer's.
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From caregiver to care-receiver (opens the original)
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It took seventeen years of caregiving to learn to accept help. I remained in a “giver” role when I started pet sitting, but pets are the epitome of a balanced give and receive, always giving back, with love, kisses, laughter, entertainment and enjoyable exercise. Subscribe nowMinutes after I checked into the ER with abdominal pain and jaundice the word cancer was used and I’ve been on the receiving end of help ever since. Sometimes too tired and weak to remember my independent streak, other tim
Grief Your Way (opens the original)
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Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross introduced five stages of grief. Often misunderstood, misquoted and misinterpreted, they were specific to the response of someone receiving a terminal illness diagnosis, not experienced in any order or necessarily experienced at all. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance are but a summary of her years of clinical interviews. Curiosity Focused is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subs
THE SEA (opens the original)
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Can you be tranquil and volatile? Watch the sea through a year of seasons and you will see the finest examples of both. The tranquil lapping tide on a warm summer day AND the violent winds frothing giant waves into pinnacles of mountainous liquid terror.<img alt=""
Tattoo? (opens the original)
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I’m curious, do you tattoo? Do you have tattoo’s, appreciate a beautiful artistic skin painting? Or are you opposed to the inking of skin?SubscribeI didn’t get my first until I was forty. It was the marking of a big transition in my life. I knew what I wanted and I searched the entire county extensively for the right artist to create it. I couldn’t be happier with it. It serves as a lifelong supportive hand on my should reminding me th
Nickname (opens the original)
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Do you have a nickname? Call me Michelle and I probably won’t even turn my head even though it is my given and legal name. Curiosity Focused is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<div class="fake-i
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