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Sep 21, 2022·edited Sep 21, 2022Liked by William Hunter Duncan

Very nice post and reflection on the changing of the seasons. It’s so important to keep doing as much as you can with your aging parents. and to just be with them in the last years of their lives. My mom had dementia and lived in assisted living. I wasn’t able to be physically in her presence for all of this Covid crap...as I did not get the you know what and they wouldn’t let me in her building. The last day of her life (on Mother’s Day 2021) I had to talk to her on the phone outside through a sliding glass door. She was in a ‘skilled nursing’ facility and I couldn’t go in the building. I knew she was dying and I told her everyone (all the family members) loved her, I sang her some songs and told her to go find my Dad (who had passed away 34 years prior). That it was ok to go. She passed away within the hour after I left. I know she’s in a better place. She lived a long and full life, found true, unrequited love in the last four years of her life with a beautiful man with a beautiful soul. So what more could a daughter ask than to see her mother happy.

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That is both heart rending, and inspiring. I hope America becomes more reflective about that.

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Sep 22, 2022Liked by William Hunter Duncan

Thank you for sharing your story! I am sorry that your mom passed away under those circumstances. I am glad that you did not shy away from sharing a bittersweet story. Many people do, but I always consider those stories to be part of the fabric of life. You won't recognize the good things in life if you don't also acknowledge the sad parts.

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Sep 22, 2022Liked by William Hunter Duncan

How lovely. In this post, you paint a charming narrative of this turning of the wheel from summer into fall. Don't you love the cooler days? Feeling the outwardly expressed energies of summer retreating into the depths and darkness to rest and revitalize? I love these thresholds into the following season. Today, I re-graveled my driveway and made oven roasted tomatoes. I am now going to soak in an Epsom salts bath and do some yin yoga afterward and sleep soundly. Simple, happy life. Your mama sounds like a beautiful being 🙏

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I get my radical, loving nature from my mom. I am loving this cooler day now at the 80. Long hikes in the woods and field, no mosquitos! But the sun is still warm, though now set and I am outside enjoying a beer, maybe dancing later in the moonlight with the wood swords and the antlers of a deer I harvested here in about 2007. A sacred day and night.

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Sep 21, 2022Liked by William Hunter Duncan

I hope you have a wonderful Fall Equinox!

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You too!

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