Been there. Done that. Nineteen times.
Big, small.
Short, Tall.
Fat, Skinny.
Black, white, brown, blue, green, yellow, pink with white polka dots.
Cancer doesn't give a shit.
It's turned up to kill you.
Fight.
It's what I did.
Should have been dead in 2005.
Still here.
Leonard Cohen and Sonny Rollins playing “Who By Fire” on NBC’s one of a kind Nightmusic (1989). We have the late Hal Wilner and David Sanborn to thank for dreaming up and producing the greatest music show that’s ever been on tv.
My waiter had dementia and forgot my order.
I visited a cafe in Japan that ONLY hires people with Dementia. It's called the Cafe Of Mistaken Orders.
Sometimes the servers bring you the wrong food, never bring your order, or sit down and join you instead.
But the point of this cafe is to be a place for dementia patients to feel needed and have purpose.
And this cafe is working. Japan has discovered that being socially connected actually slows down the progression of dementia.
So now there are 8,000 dementia cafes all over Japan!
The U.S. should be more like Japan. We should keep elders out of nursing homes, find ways to give them purpose, and part of society until their last days.
42 years ago today I made a surprising discovery that every year has been showing us more and more about the answer to life, the universe and everything...
https://t.co/z1uA3RyxYF
Honoured to have my poem Come and See published by brilliant Editor Barbara Leonhard in the superb MasticadoresUSA. https://t.co/HqMKOZaYnI via @StriderPoet