Monthly Archives: April 2019

Seeing Selectively

Posted on April 24, 2019 by Jon Wagner

We’ve had this table and these chairs for 20 years or so. I never tire of looking at how they come together from different angles in the changing light from the window behind.  That appreciation involves both my head and … Continue reading →

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Seeing Continuities

Posted on April 23, 2019 by Jon Wagner

The view from my hospital room the morning after a heart procedure. The version of myself that sees the physical world in terms of light, color, lines, and forms has a lot of vitality, but it’s pretty specialized, somewhat obsessive, … Continue reading →

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Talking through Loss and Distress – 27 April 2017 –

Posted on April 2, 2019 by Jon Wagner

When I arrived at A Kinder Light (Leslie’s second memory care residence) Leslie was seated at Lucy, Vern and Ruth’s table for lunch, facing the window and staring outside. Ruth wasn’t there, but Lucy and Vern were. I checked in … Continue reading →

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What can you do if he’s just talking nonsense?

Posted on April 1, 2019 by Jon Wagner

When you say ‘nonsense,’ do you mean vocalizations that are never formed into words, like when we moan or cry out, sigh or smack our lips? Or the fish mouth, cooing and gitchey-gitchey-goo sounds we use with infants and intimate … Continue reading →

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