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Jiddu Krishnamurti – “The Awakening of Intelligence”
For a long period after my Dad’s death in November 2005 I was very muddled up about everything in my life.
(See Cathartic Experiment/Experience) I felt paranoid all the time. I had totally lost my confidence and self-esteem, and I just did not want to be in the situation I found myself in. At this time my mother’s health was starting to deteriorate, and it seemed to me like round one all over again…
No CommentsCathartic Experiment/Experience – Baby Wipes & Giant Rabbit Ears
Alzheimer’s is a cruel and insidious disease because it creeps up on the afflicted person over time. Silly little mispronunciation’s, which are instantly covered up with hilarious laughter by other family members or friends, are not consciously sign-posted at the time of their first occurrence as the onslaught of dementia or Alzheimer’s; and why should they be – after all, everybody is entitled to the odd Freudian-slip now and again.
My Dad, who in later years did suffer from Alzheimer’s, always had a great sense of humour which manifested itself in strange ways: He often had difficulty getting his tongue round his r’s (e.g. he would say ‘Ad-morality’ instead of ‘Admiralty’ or ‘Indentify’ instead of ‘identify’, but these were his unique little foibles that endeared him to his family and friends so much. He’d always been good at making light of things, or just laughing them off!
No CommentsCathartic Experiment/Experience – My Story
For several years I have been a full time Carer, looking after both my parents when they lived at home. My Dad suffered from Alzheimer’s disease and cancer of the rectum, later requiring a Stoma operation; after his death in late 2005, I continued looking after my mother at home, who also suffered from low mood and dementia, until she moved to a residential care home in July 2007…
No CommentsArchitecture – Definition
Architecture (Latin architectura, from the Greek ἀρχιτέκτων – arkhitekton, from ἀρχι- “chief” and τέκτων “builder, carpenter”) can mean:
The art and science of designing and erecting buildings and other physical structures.
The practice of an architect, where architecture means to offer or render professional services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings, that have as their principal purpose human occupancy or use.
No CommentsFrank Lloyd Wright on the Web: The Early Years
Frank Lloyd Wright was born on June 8, 1867 in Richland Center, Wisconsin. He spent a few semesters in the Engineering School at the University of Wisconsin before leaving for Chicago in 1887. At the age of twenty, he was hired as an apprentice in the office of J. Lyman Silsbee who designed All Souls’ Unitarian Church where Wright’s uncle was minister. The young architect’s first work was nominally a Silsbee commission –the Hillside Home School built for his aunts in 1888 near Spring Green, Wisconsin.
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