The Great Work of Your Life: a Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling
“Its onset was rapid, and within a few years he was completely disabled. Well, not just disabled. Gone. Poof. My handsome and charming father—a college president, admired for his wit, impeccably groomed and dressed, affable, commanding—now sitting blankly in a wheelchair looking into vague space, surrounded by other wheelchaired beings in the same disastrous straits.
Here was an energetic man in his late seventies, still vital, who had decidedly found his dharma early in life and had been living... it mightily—until he began the long good-bye of Alzheimer’s. It was an unending nightmare for those of us who loved him. I was working on another book at that time—also on dharma—and I wondered as Dad’s Alzheimer’s rapidly progressed: What was his dharma now?
Dad had been born to a poor family in an Ohio River industrial town. He was a short, skinny kid who’d fought his way to high school every day along a route infested with river-town bullies. He won a scholarship to college—then to graduate school.MoreLess
Here was an energetic man in his late seventies, still vital, who had decidedly found his dharma early in life and had been living... it mightily—until he began the long good-bye of Alzheimer’s. It was an unending nightmare for those of us who loved him. I was working on another book at that time—also on dharma—and I wondered as Dad’s Alzheimer’s rapidly progressed: What was his dharma now?
Dad had been born to a poor family in an Ohio River industrial town. He was a short, skinny kid who’d fought his way to high school every day along a route infested with river-town bullies. He won a scholarship to college—then to graduate school.MoreLess
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