Dear Family: Get it together...[Find] something that you can agree on, no matter how simple. This can start everyone moving towards compromise and consensus.
-Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.
WELCOME TO “DEAR FAMILY.” This page is dedicated to people who have so much to say, but no forum to say it. Maybe they have no one to say it to, or maybe others run from emotional exchanges as fast and far as possible. My hope is that seniors and their children, grandchildren, and caregivers alike will make use of this space to write what they find too hard to say face to face. Entries will remain anonymous, so speak up! Simply click on the link below and send your entries over.
WE NEED TO BE SO MUCH BETTER AT EXPRESSING OURSELVES. We know that we aren’t very good listeners, but we are also not very good talkers. We tend to shy away from telling people things, because we’re afraid of their reaction, or or because we fear that they will see us a “a burden” or
Jealous of John
I am jealous of John because he always seemed so sure of what his career path would be. He was incredibly talented. He excelled in almost every artistic area (physics not so much)…
All That Mattered
“Not one of the material things we lost matter anymore. I don’t long for any of them, no matter how special, or beautiful, or expensive they were. But I miss the people who are gone, whether I lost them in the 1940’s, or years and decades later. Those voids can’t ever be filled. So, please treasure the people that you have in your life, and realize how important they are to you now, so that you can still enjoy every minute you have with them. In the end, it will be all that mattered.”
