Another great meeting of Book Club at work. So far we have read "One
Thousand White Women", "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo", "Bel Canto"
and our next one up is "Night". We also discussed "The Help".
The
residents constantly amaze me. There is a woman with the best sense of
humor, and Parkinson's; a men who can remember every meal he ever had on
an outing, but can hardly move because of a stroke; a woman who has the
figure of a teenager, but can't remember any games with new rules. They
deal with loss, pain, and limitations, yet they go out of their ways to
be nice to new people. They don't complain and they are determined to
make the best of each day.
Some friends have told me
they suspect older people don't have any fresh ideas. They think older
people just rely on canned phrases and repeated stories. Certainly this
may be true for some but many more times I've been surprised by the
resident's wittiness or assertions which could only have been newly
generated for the situation at hand.
I look forward to
book club because I genuinely want to know what they think of the
things we read. They shock me with their insight and I think they would
shock the people who believe young ideas can't come from 90-somethings.
For most of the residents- looks are very deceiving.
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