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17 January 2014: Friday ... a Facebook thread on life itself and understanding ... Julie, PRN nurse, makes a visit ... Y workout ... 2-mile walk with Dancer ... phone calls to Liz and Joyce on walk
Today has been an incredible day of insight into the human psyche. First of all, mom was visited by the PRN nurse, who saw dad once, Julie, from Delaware Hospice. I remembered her because she is also a care provider for her father, who she said, receives CNA assistance five days a week. She is good at what she does. A quick study, she has to size up her patient and offer guidance with not a lot of time. Today, she assessed mom's difficulty with the nasal cannula and it producing an irritation in the nostrils. Her solution: I brought out the humidifying bottle and she hooked it up and the air got cycled through the water and thus moisturized or humidified. Mom's doing better because of it and her thoughtfulness and problem solving was the key.
Julie caring for dad in her visit to our home well over a month ago.
I invited the Jehovah's Witness woman, Beverly, who brought her husband, Brian, to the house to discuss a broad range of topics that have puzzled man since he or she first gained a cognitive and aware sense. The result was a FB post that initiated the greatest amount of commentary of any one I have ever done. I was amazed. The following is the current activity on this post. I wrote and the people commented:
"I'm all for dialogue, reasonable and enlightening talk that furthers an issue. And there's not any greater talk than our origin and just why we humans, one species, have a brain that can presumably dispense reason and morality. We're no longer in a "survival of the fittest" mode, at least in the Serengeti-plains version, according to my interlocutor Brian and his wife Beverly, both Jehovah's Witnesses.
Our talk was wide-ranging and enveloped a multi-millennial quest of all thinkers in human society. Just how did we get here, why are we here, and what is our purpose?
Whether Unitarian-Universalist or Jehovah's Witness or whatever faith tradition, it unites us all. Or does it?"
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