Category Archives: Thoughts
New Service for the Season
Holiday Rush Not Twitter Series offers daily words for well-being from Thanksgiving weekend through New Year's Day. Follow @marymacmissions.
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Heart Care, Dementia Care 2012 Syracuse, NY
It is Saturday morning. I’m having a cup of coffee and reflecting on the last few days I’ve spent here, North of Syracuse, NY. The purpose of my visit is to spend time with my father, who lives here, and is awaiting heart valve surgery, expected in June. We have enjoyed meals and movies together. [...]
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Seeds Planted, Tended… Grow
Another great quote from Judi Neal’s Edgewalker e-news: As great as learning is, it is important to realize that knowledge is meaningless unless we apply what we have learned. The seeds of knowledge will blow away in the wind unless they are planted in our everyday life. The seedlings must be tended regularly by watering [...]
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Giving Birth to our Images
Thanks to Judi Neal for the following Edgewalker quote: You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness that you feel. The future must enter you long before it happens. Just wait for the hour, the birth of new clarity. — Ranier Maria Rilke Here’s [...]
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Vision for our shared future
Please read the vision statement I’ve crafted. This is my first attempt to capture my vision for our shared future in a statement. I welcome your comments and questions! Moving forward with a listening heart, vision, inquiry, and action, ~ Mary marymac missions’ vision: caregivers and receivers feel and know the presence of caring community [...]
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The Mental and Physical Toll…WBUR Reports
Please listen to the WBUR’s special report on The Mental and Physical Toll of Alzheimer’s Care. Read the transcript. Thank you WBUR for reporting on this topic affecting so many of us. My personal story, recorded Oct 5 at Brooksby Village, Peabody, MA, will be available on the “marymacmissions” YouTube channel in a couple of [...]
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Living with Dementia: Mary Agnes tweets
Please check out WBUR, Boston’s NPR station and website. They have done a great job covering a story about Theresa and Mary Agnes – a Boston-based daughter and mom (age 82) living with early stage Alzheimer’s. A year ago, Theresa started a Twitter account (@maryagneskelley) that shares her mom’s voice with the world. In the [...]
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Caregivers and Work Balance
Kudos to Sally Abrahms and the editorial team at AARP Bulletin for covering the topic this month, “The Caregiver’s Dilemma.” The article does a great job summarizing the social situation and offers practical advice to caregivers on discussing the topic of family caregiving and work performance with a boss. Moving forward with a listening heart, [...]
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Conscious Capitalism Conference @ Bentley U.
I attended the two-day Conscious Capitalism Conference at Bentley University yesterday and today. It was a gathering of about 250 people who care about leading foremost with Spirit and Heart in their businesses and helping others to do so as well. International thought leaders, academics and business leaders convened to discuss future trends in business [...]
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Home Alone, Traveling Solo for the Holiday