Here it is...

Smile...

The dream is almost coming true...

The dream is almost coming true...

This will be the coming book on Loneliness.

..words of wisdom...

Today a 91 year old woman asked me this question. "How do you make your face smooth and without wrinkles? Instead of answering her, I asked her this question, "Share with me how you make yourself stay healthy at this age?" She smiled and said, "You want to know the reason, be happy, eat healthy good, enough rest and have healthy spiritual life." That was a lesson for me today.

...I want to go home...

A 90 year old woman was saying to me today, "I want to go home to see my mother." It is very touching to listen to her because she does not know why she was saying that sentence. She repeated the same sentence about 8 times. I listened to know but eventually, I tried to distract her mind by saying let me bring you outside to see the wonderful weather today. While I was wheeling her I asked her, "where is home?" She started to tell me. This is what I enountered almost everyday in my working place, God bless all these wonderful residents.

...never underestimate....and make other invisible...

Today as I walked along the corridor to my office, I saw this 89 year woman sitting on her wheel chair as if she was sleeping. Not to disturb her, I walked gently of not wanting to disturb her. But to my surprise, she said, "how are you today Peter?"
I could not believe it, because most of the time she will be sleeping as I used to pass by her each day. A great lesson for me. "Don't make other invisible." I responded to her, "I am doing fine, thank you?" She responded "you look good."

17 days to go.....

17 days to go, I will be in Paris, France to present my paper at the 19th World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics (July 5-9, 2009).

I will be presenting the topic on Loneliness and Lived Experiences of Elderly Individuals Living Independently: Hermeneutic Phenomenological Approach.

Eternal Rest Grant Unto her O Lord

Finally this woman whom I described in my recent posting passed away today at 3.25 PM. I always remember her beautiful smile, and when she was still speaking, she always said to me, "how...are..you?"