No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect.
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blood, sweat, and tears.
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don't parse parsley
nor bomb poppies
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into blackberry drupelets
as enkindled okra seeds
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and the Cheney Wolfowitz regime
are called The United States
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in the bright sun
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Marks o... SAIOM SHRIVER CLOVER VEIL
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violets the vale
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or when ultraviolet
sun prevails. SAIOM SHRIVER The ocean:
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stars' light reaches him..
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the cleft of rock Neptune's
polyfingered hand of
welcome. SAIOM SHRIVER 61 died that day in the 1st infantry..in Vietnam..
two? rows of body bags.. the fruit of war...dryi... SAIOM SHRIVER The trees of life
randomly grow
but the graves of Arlington
are set in rows. SAIOM SHRIVER FOUR FLOWERS
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in Morning Glory
with His Goldenrod
Wanding Violet
to Rose
(to C and R Da... SAIOM SHRIVER He has changed He has grown
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lackadaisical..
but because he in freedom blows
the world will never
lack for d... SAIOM SHRIVER From the shore.. one looks
upward to the sanddune grass..
10,000
green brushes attempting
where the... SAIOM SHRIVER The olive tree is
the altar of Allah.
On it Allah has placed
olives free for all.
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in many countries
they break through
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cups of crocuses
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willow fronds
parts world of
green earth
from that of blue pond
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of ... SAIOM SHRIVER Those who focused on
the shock of shards
as the phoenix bird
burst from his shell
nearly missed the ... SAIOM SHRIVER A little birdie flew overhead a traffic light of green and red.
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of the Peaceful Master
become the tirades
of warmonger pastors? SAIOM SHRIVER Busy bees chased
the bloom chaste
Though
they crawled on her
clothes
her petals unfolded
and those ... SAIOM SHRIVER They did the little boy turkey named Art... choke
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touches vined cucumber
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Fire has left the hearth
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bee, the OerHoverer.
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add another hue
unto the rainbow
yet we would ope to
saffron and jade
and... SAIOM SHRIVER The dousing wand
The lightning rod
Conductor's baton
Will's aligned spine
They find the water,
invok... SAIOM SHRIVER Out of the sea
the sun aborning
Not adorned but
all adorning
with his awesome light
of morning
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opinions
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reaches out to touch
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nor does he in pain scream
when... SAIOM SHRIVER Do you want to be
with your love by the sea
hearing the gullsong
smelling the salt air
feeling the s... SAIOM SHRIVER Jesus' Fig Tree
He did belittle you..
but soon he'll bebig you..
and in the spring
with blooms he... SAIOM SHRIVER How many have been frozen gored starved or blown apart
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for those with no venus
(to Dan Brown). SAIOM SHRIVER My love for you
a yearling became
many eons ago
Saiom Shriver. SAIOM SHRIVER HEART PERFUME
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... S N SHRIVER The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurr... MARIA MITCHELL I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go ... MARIA MONK Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special ... MARIA MONTESSORI Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - se... MARIA MONTESSORI It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in f... MARIA MONTESSORI The child who concentrates is immensely happy. MARIA MONTESSORI One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. MARIA MONTESSORI If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the ma... MARIA MONTESSORI The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it. No,... MARIA MONTESSORI Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. T... MARIA BARTIROMO It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and expe... MARIA MONTESSORI What is a scientist? We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a m... MARIA MONTESSORI I survived many a youth hostel bunk room reading Tolstoy by flashlight. MARIA SEMPLE So for me, anything that has to do with animals, and I'm a happy camper. MARIA MENOUNOS Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with peopl... MARIA BARTIROMO Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart. MARIA EDGEWORTH The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the diff... MARIA MONTESSORI If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of kno... MARIA MONTESSORI Times have changed, and science has made great progress, and so has our work; but our principles hav... MARIA MONTESSORI Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to ... MARIA MONTESSORI An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a con... MARIA MONTESSORI There is in every child a painstaking teacher, so skilful that he obtains identical results in all c... MARIA MONTESSORI The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return. MARIA EDGEWORTH Discipline must come through liberty. We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has ... MARIA MONTESSORI Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding. QUEEN MARIA If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to... MARIA MONTESSORI People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear. MARIA MITCHELL An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in m... MARIA CALLAS Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God. MARIA MITCHELL Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears MARIA MITCHELL The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. ... MARIA LENHART Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. MARIA ROBINSON Nature knows best, and she says, roar! MARIA EDGEWORTH We cannot create observers by saying "observe," but by giving them the power and the means for this ... MARIA MONTESSORI The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. In our ... MARIA MONTESSORI People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear. MARIA MITCHELL Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property. MARIA EDGEWORTH I want to go berry picking on the hogback, God.
Keep me on a short leash. MARIA SC Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live. MARIA ROBINSON Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of w... MARIA MONTESSORI The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convict... MARIA MONTESSORI I have received more fulfillment and adulation than I would ever know what to do with in terms of sh... MARIA BAMFORD The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. ... MARIA MONTESSORI I quickly realized that shopping on Amazon had made the idea of parking my car and going into a stor... MARIA SEMPLE Not having an administrator sends the wrong message to the airline industry. MARIA CANTWELL At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs... MARIA MONTESSORI The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil. MARIA MONTESSORI The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that t... MARIA MONTESSORI If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany l... MARIA MONTESSORI The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a ... MARIA MONTESSORI That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pu... MARIA CALLAS We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural proce... MARIA MONTESSORI