Ryan, this is beautiful. I love your post — interesting and very well written. You have some wonderful phrases in there, like "a traveller from 1922." It is like that, right?! They really are from a different time and place that we can learn about. And "likely aided by some parental sleights of hand, and hot chocolate." Great stuff. And …
Ryan, this is beautiful. I love your post — interesting and very well written. You have some wonderful phrases in there, like "a traveller from 1922." It is like that, right?! They really are from a different time and place that we can learn about. And "likely aided by some parental sleights of hand, and hot chocolate." Great stuff. And I think you make an important point, that an older person needn't have lived the Frances kind of life to have a ton that they can teach us. Sometimes I like to think of old people as walking libraries;)
I'm sure you feel lucky to have met your patient, but man your compassion really shines through in this post, so I'm sure she feels really lucky too. Thanks so much for sharing this.
Ryan, this is beautiful. I love your post — interesting and very well written. You have some wonderful phrases in there, like "a traveller from 1922." It is like that, right?! They really are from a different time and place that we can learn about. And "likely aided by some parental sleights of hand, and hot chocolate." Great stuff. And I think you make an important point, that an older person needn't have lived the Frances kind of life to have a ton that they can teach us. Sometimes I like to think of old people as walking libraries;)
I'm sure you feel lucky to have met your patient, but man your compassion really shines through in this post, so I'm sure she feels really lucky too. Thanks so much for sharing this.