Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell of all his wonderful acts. -Psalm 105:2 Hi all! I was just working on a video for my job and noticed a bunch of my YouTube videos of mom playing the piano and hanging out from the last 3-4 years. I stopped recording that way because she…
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Camp Songs and Dementia
Posted 1/21/22 starting at about 1:12:22, give or take. But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life. Jude 1:20-21 Did you go to…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 83: Don’t Cut the Arts
Posted 6/3/20 Humppppp Daaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy! Have a happy one, friends! Today will be a short read, but may take a little bit more time to process. Also let me warn you that the content is emotional in a different way than normal. Viewer discretion and a box of tissues are strongly recommended. Let me start with…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 63: Mr. Applegate’s Brain Games: The Brain as a Flexed Muscle
Posted 5-15-20 Happy Thor’s Day! Let’s hammer this week home, what do ya say??? Things are starting to look up in the virus front. Folks are slowly but surely reopening and finding their niche in the new normal. Are things perfect? Even good? No…but they are getting better. In today’s “class”, we will discuss cognitive…
Shawshank Re:Dementia Day 49: Stressed Out
Posted 5-1-20 Hi all! Happy May Day!! The weekend is much closer than the end of this article will seem. 😉 Hope and trust you are ok. 🙂 In the Ozarks, we are looking at sunny weather the next two days with highs in the high 70s/low 80s…then the required thunderstorms Sunday as payback for…
Shawshank Re:Dementia (Day 5)
Posted 3/17/20 Happy St. Patty’s day, all!!!! Another day without seeing mom. 🙁 Another day “in the hole”. Most folks could use an iPad or an Alexa device, but I doubt mom would get the point in the state she is in. She is more of a hand-holder and a Andy Griffith with me watcher….
Shawshank Re:Dementia (Day 4)
Posted 3-16-20 “I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don’t want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I’d like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can’t be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it….
10 Things Even a Non-Musical Person Can Learn from a Symphony About Dementia
Posted 12-9-19 I hope and pray that you had a nice weekend! 🙂 Mine was especially good and festive in getting in the Christmas spirit. I got to see my daughter who lives across the state (always a blessing) and I got to attend not one but two symphony concerts! That is the perfect storm…
Billows Part 3: When Sorrows Like Sea Billows Roll
Posted 9-5-19 I realize we have covered this song a little in past episodes of Digital Cornbread, but I cannot finish a decent list that covers defeating the billows of dementia without this wonderful hymn. “It Is Well With My Soul” was written by an imperfect man (like us all), a lawyer named Horatio Gates…
Billows His Will Obey
Posted 9-3-19 Happy Monday Tuesday to all!!! It is going to be a great week! I am super thankful every day that I have some folks that read my chicken scratchings here… and that they comment and support and do some things that help defeat this disease. And, it will be defeated one way or…