Category: family carer
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The gift of a Holiday
The gifts of a holiday can be the taste of carefree-ness; the glimpse of other vistas; the change of scene and circumstance. Upon returning home, reality can feel a bit like a thud. Here are our familiar routines again. Here we return to the responsible zone with caregiving layered on again. And just for a…
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Why keep a rubberneck in check?
I should have known to expect it but it still throws me……this lack of subtlety in the community when a difference is spotted. The human eye for difference is acute. Growing up with my sister Felicity I’ve been aware of it for most of my life. But having a stranger lock her gaze onto my…
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Heart Ally – the power in our words
Shakespeare’s character Juliet encouraged her family to look beyond the rival family name her lover Romeo carried and see the gem of a person he was, saying:- “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet”. She had a point. We don’t want labels to create prejudice. And sometimes words can fall short in…
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