"Every step of the way to heaven is heaven." Saint Catherine of Sienna.
Would we live life differently if we believed that we are experiencing heaven right here, right now? Joseph Campbell said something similar in different words, that we must accept the pain and losses of life and be fine with it. Would our attitudes toward life be different if we determined that it was all good? Just as the butterfly must struggle on its own to free itself from the chrysalis, perhaps we too must navigate our way through life in order to fly. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan writes that life itself has the spiritual dimension and it is important for us to recognize that. So, if any of that is true, what about living with dementia? Yes, it would include that too, I think.
Dwane's daughter and family are here visiting from another continent. It has been fun to see how excited he is to have them here. He spent days doing something or another with the vehicle we lent them; something I have noted about the way he shows people he loves them. It is good to see him have people make effort to be in contact with him.
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