by Jeni Martinez | Jul 6, 2018 | Caregiver/daughter, Family
Today you turned and looked at me when I sat next to you. You asked me what I had been up to as though it was the most normal of conversations and that we were picking up where we had just left off. You let me hold your hand and you smiled when I put my puppy Wilma on...
by Jeni Martinez | Dec 27, 2017 | Caregiver/daughter, Family
Ever notice a flower growing up through the crack in a rock, defying all odds to assert it’s beauty in the world? That’s how love is sometimes… During a recent visit to what we refer to jokingly as Mad Park, the memory care facility where Mom lives,...
by Jeni Martinez | Sep 7, 2017 | Caregiver/daughter, Family, Yoga
Mom stoops to pick up a leaf from the walkway at the memory care facility. She says with purpose, “I need to get out here and get these picked up.” Mom has always loved to sweep, and rake and weed. I make a mental note to bring her a broom when I come...
by Jeni Martinez | Sep 2, 2017 | Caregiver/daughter, Family
I’ve never been one to read the last page of a book first, in order to find out how it ends. But I’ll admit I am a planner. I usually have a list, a day-timer and lots of colored post-it notes to keep me organized and on top of things. So when I heard that...
by Jeni Martinez | Aug 20, 2017 | Caregiver/daughter, Dogs, Family
It was Sunday morning but we had no plans to go to church. I spent my first ten years as the daughter of Christian missionary parents in Japan and have found comfort and community in churches at various times in my life. Recently though, I have felt more...
by Jeni Martinez | Aug 18, 2017 | Caregiver/daughter, Dogs, Yoga
The first time I met Tanner, it was November 5, 2010. I was hosting a yoga retreat at Skamania Lodge near the border of Washington and Oregon. I was wearing my yoga-retreat-coordinator hat and attitude that day, not my crazy-about-dogs hat. I walked into the first...
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