I last joined you here following a non-traditional Thanksgiving. That afternoon I was notified by my brother’s assisted living in Virginia that he had been taken to the hospital for evaluation after a fall. Eight days later he fell again, and was...
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Within two weeks I am moving from the Blue Ridge Mountains to Kentucky where my children were raised and where I have four grandchildren growing up too fast. I am leaving the Al-Anon group where I have done my most substantial 12-Step work for...
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In my work with hospice in the north Georgia mountains, I recently met for dinner with members of a bereavement group following our bi-monthly gathering, and was amazed to learn that the gentleman on my left and the woman on my right each had...
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