Tom

“I’ve concluded that families of those with Alzheimer’s come in four distinct categories.
1. The first group is one we see the most. They laugh and visit the best they can, still enjoying the company of the person they love.
2. The second group comes a little less often. Instead of laughter, they may be brought to tears.
3. The third group sits mortified, frozen by their surroundings, near as helpless as the person they’ve come to visit.
To all of these people I say, “Thank you.”
4. The last group we don’t see because they are never here. There are instances where these families simply do not exist, but too often the hard truth is that they are busy elsewhere.”
― Charles Shoenfeld

“A man’s real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.”
― Alexander Smith

“The greatest obstacles I ever had to overcome had been my own insecurities.”
― Charles Shoenfeld

“And because I love this life
I know I shall love death as well.
The child cries out when
From the right breast the mother
Takes it away, in the very next moment
To Find in the left one
Its consolation.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali