Being Radical

"The word radical comes from the Latin radix, meaning "root".  It refers to going deep."
Matthew Fox

Matthew Fox has continued to go deep, after being expelled from the Catholic Church, partly for insisting God is both feminine and masculine and partly for saying we have an original blessing, rather than original sin.  Courageous.  It is courageous for anyone to speak his/her truth in face of opposition.  That is what we as caregivers do.  We ask staff to go into the hallucinating with our loved one, rather than arguing and correcting.  We ask everyone to treat our loved one with love and respect.  We go visit -- it would be far easier to find a reason to not go to the nursing home.  We go deep:  to be caregivers in a way that provides dignity and respect for our loved ones and ourselves.