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No Time to Worry

5/27/2014

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Pictures may say a thousand words. They can also save a thousand worries.
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I was babysitting my granddaughter the other night. She was hungry, tired and didn’t want her daddy to go. I could see my son was reluctant to leave her – but I said go, we’ll be fine.

And we were.

Once she was settled I sent him a picture, knowing he would feel better.

Technology can never replace the human touch but the right photo or text at the right moment can calm the nerves, and dial down the anxiety switch.

Because of my Parkinson’s I am careful when cooking or cutting.  But when I mentioned to my daughter one day that I had purchased some watermelon for my dessert, I sensed the “OMG she’s not going to do that.”

Knowing my daughter would carry that concern I decided to make a preemptive strike.

I took a series of photographs, modeled after the presentations we use in Culinaire Magazine.  Once the final slice and dice was finished I sent them off.

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Now I can enjoy my dessert and she can relax and focus on more important things.
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