HeyJaredIn My Own Way
A respectful, non-argumentative conversation about the search for the sacred in daily life: how to trust your own unique perspective and stay mindful of the very human capacity for self-deception
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One More Time, a Delay (opens the original)
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Hello Everyone,Tomorrow, I move my lovely wife into residential care. Her Alzheimer’s has progressed to the point where I can no longer provide the skilled attention she needs. It’s time to take that next step.Yes, a time of profound sadness, but also relief.Sunday is my day to share more with you about the things that concern me, in the hope of hearing back from you about the same. But, once again, I’ll have nothing to post, given the activity of the moment.So, thanks for your patience with me.
Nothing today (opens the original)
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Hello all,My lifeHello all,My life been pretty full lately with caregiving and completing the draft of my next book. So, nothing more today. I did receive a very thoughtful email from Craig Martin, an old friend, and I received his permission to share it and my response. More about that to come.. For the moment, Many thanks for being there and for contributing your thinking. We need that now more than ever.
You Get What You Fear (opens the original)
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These days, two things occupy my time: caring for my wonderful wife and putting together my next book. They are intertwined, of course, for that’s the way life is.I’m three weeks into the process of setting up a caregiver visit six mornings a week. It still isn’t settled. I keep battling my mindtalk that setting this up should be easier. After all, isn’t Alzheimer’s enough of a challenge to deal with? Shouldn’t establishing a pattern of care be easier because the disease itself is so difficult?T
What You Believe or Don't (opens the original)
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I saw a charming, unapologetically sentimental 23-year-old movie last night. In the penultimate scene of “Secondhand Lions,” Uncle Hub, the character played by Robert Duval, delivers the first part of what he calls “the speech that a boy needs to become man.” I copied the dialogue word-for-word:There’s a long speech I give to young men. Sounds like you need to hear a piece of it—just a piece. Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things that a man needs to believe in the most:
Three Realities that Somehow Matter (opens the original)
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The current administration of our country is determined to whitewash (a good word, that) our history and hold as criminals anyone whose opinions or lived experience bear witness to the contrary.Last week, I remembered an unpublished manuscript, called Out of the Silence, that details the extradorinaiy, confusing, revelatory, and at times self-deceptive experiences of a three-month sabbatical I took in early 1979. I hadn’t read it in 45 years, but I’m now outlining a book about the experience of
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