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There are multiple things they don't prepare us for in high school or college. One of them being the physical act of watching your parents fade. Making it even more difficult is being two thousand miles from the soil that raised your ambitions and dreams. Therefore you rely on family members to help bring peace to all that is changing. I find it difficult to locate the right words to say. I'm a writer. It should could easy right? Through several layers and painful failures I've learned the goal everyday is to do nothing more than make room for my sister the caretaker, To listen. Make no decisions to correct and or attempt to help lead. Just listen. She doesn't want to hear about God. Wants nothing to do with the valley floors shaped everyday on my journey. The mission is to just listen. Having patience with those who are taking care of those fading. On this podcast we talk about her side while attempting to explain this side. Care Givers are angels. They've answered the command and calling. Then the higher source of energy says, "Your part in this process of fading is to be the structure that holds up those face first in the struggle. You'll hear things and experience emotions that have never been laid out before. Just be there. Let them know they've got support. No matter what time of day the phone rings or the text message chimes. That's your part in the fade." The circle of life and all it's chapters. Don't fight the journey. Listen...
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