Painting pictures for our loved ones…

Cristian’s St. Peter’s’ song speaks to me of the Alzheimer’s Journey. My Michael sits by my side a little while longer while I “paint pictures” of our years together. I found it moving and wanted to share it with you, my community of beautiful carers who also paint pictures for your loved ones to briefly touch and know. Be well- your spouse, partner, and/or parent needs you. This means you need to take care of you, first. Because if you let yourself hit empty, you’ll have no capacity to love past this monster of illness and the disease will take you, too.

”Sit by my side
Come as close as the air
Share in a memory of grays
And wander in my words
Dream about the pictures
That I paint of changes

Green leaves of summer
Turn red in the fall
To brown and to yellow
They fade And then they have to die
Trapped within the circle time
Parade of changes

Scenes of my young years
Are warm in my mind
Visions of shadows that shine
Till one day I returned
And found they were the victims
Of the vines of changes

The world's spinning madly
It drifts in the dark
Swings through a hollow of hazeA race around the stars
(A race around the stars)
A journey through the universe ablaze
(A journey through the universe ablaze)
With changes

Your tears will be trembling
Now we're somewhere else
One last cup of wine, we will pour
And I'll kiss you one more time
And leave you on the rolling
River shores of changes

I'll kiss you one more time
(I'll kiss you one more time)
And leave you on the rolling river shores”

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