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When love isn’t enough:
Recognizing when your aging parents
need a caregiver

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Aging Parents

As I have written in other articles, families often gather together for Christmas and the holidays. Adult children may fly in from faraway states, or even countries, to celebrate with loved ones. In our household, one set of elderly parents in their 80s bravely flew in to stay with us in Los Altos from Beijing, and in the other case a trip to Florida to visit 90-year-old Grandma for Christmas was a blessing.

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The Seven Ages of Caregiving

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Yesterday was Earth Day. Today is Shakespeare’s birthday. It feels like the universe is asking us to pay attention to cycles — what grows, what endures, what we tend, and what tends us. In As You Like It, the melancholy Jaques famously declares that all the world’s a stage, and one man in his time plays seven parts. He wasn’t wrong. But he left someone out. All the world’s a care home, and all the men and women merely caregivers. They have their exits and their entrances, and one soul in her time tends many parts, each act being one of seven ages of caregiving.

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The Rest of the Story: Two Tigers

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April - Jack and Jill

  两只老虎， 跑得快，跑得快， 一只没有耳朵， 一只没有尾巴， 真奇怪，真奇怪。 Two tigers, Running fast, running fast, One has no ears, One has no tail, How strange, how strange. Liǎng Zhī Lǎo Hǔ, or “Two Tigers”, is a beloved nursery rhyme from China that conveys a profound lesson within its simplicity. The rhyme describes two tigers, one missing an ear

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Learning to See in the Dark

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Lake in the Dark

I’m in Lake Tahoe as I write this, and a few nights ago, during the full moon, I stepped out onto the deck and took this photograph. The lake was moving—not wildly, not storming—but not still either. There was a quiet rhythm across the surface, and the moonlight stretched out over the water in a way that immediately drew me in.

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