storyfarm.canada

With fall rains come a glorious growth of mushrooms. From one day to the next they burst into the landscape. Each day, every walk, there is new growth, colour, texture and composition.  Storyfarm cultivation has been a very gradual process. I started this blog post on February 9, 2024. It is now November 2, 2024. In early February I was realizing that I needed to change my approach to my situation. I could no longer continue living in a perpetual state of imminent death. Mom had surpassed expectations for two years. She wasn't going anywhere and I needed to shift out of a hospice orientation to a long term orientation. At the same time, I needed to accept the realities and constraints of operating a long-term care bed in my home so that Mom could live out the rest of her natural life at home. This meant I needed to be extra careful about social engagements to reduce the risk of infectious disease, it also meant that my time was essentially proscribed by Mom's need for care twen...