Last Of The Trip Photos Are On The Way

For those of you who have been asking to see some of the museum and gallery photos, my husband and son were finally able to set up the Drop Box files and our son should have his photos posted there sometime this weekend. Here’s hoping anyway.  I will see how photos from the Frick, NY Public Library, the Morgan, The Metropolitan Museum and the Cloisters turned out and there may be another one or two from Dea Beacon and Bard College art exhibitions. There should be at least two or three from each place, but I will see what our son sends to pad out our own photos. 

Thanks for your patience those of you asking.

My husband is attending special Synod meetings today where some changes will be made to a few of the canons and other orders of business will be dealt with. I am going to visit my hospitalized friend. Sadly it appears she will be unable to ever return home. Her various medical conditions are no longer able to be managed sufficiently by her very elderly husband. To be at home would require a full time live in nurse with the prohibitive cost attached. Sigh…..old age can be so difficult….😞. My prayer for my friend is that there will be a space available in a local facility so that she will not be forced to move to a different town or city, making it difficult to impossible for her husband to visit her. The forced separation of older married couples with need for full time care, due to insufficient numbers of care homes, has been happening for a couple of decades in Alberta and now Saskatchewan and is the most heart breaking situation I have ever witnessed. There are few affordable facilities where a still relatively healthy spouse can move in together with a partner who requires full time care. Often if both members of a married couple require care there is no room in one facility for both of them to be together, nor are all care facilities able to handle all forms of required senior care. Separation seems the final cruelty forced upon senior people who are already burdened down by age and illness. I have to confess that the possibility of being separated from my husband for the last years of our lives is one of the few true fears I struggle with. Working in elder care for so many years I saw first hand the emotional toll these separations took on my clients when one spouse was sent to an out of town facility and the other spouse was unable to travel to visit. I am getting teary 🥲 just thinking about it….

Tomorrow we are out of town, lots of company and other commitments next week that we are looking forward to, then out of town for Thanksgiving Sunday, so there are many happy events to look forward to. How grateful I am to be so busy before the winter activity reductions are enforced once again by ice, snow and cold.