More Than One Thing Can Be True
Lately i have been thinking about why paintings sometimes communicate things that words cannot.
Category Archives: Journal
Project Launch — The Changing Mind & Brain: Inside & Between
I’ve been working quietly on something for a long time now. Not a single post, not a single story—but something larger that has been slowly forming underneath all the writing.
This is the beginning of that project.
The Symptom No One Mentions; Runny Nose
Some symptoms arrive with names and checklists. Others you only learn by living them. For me, one of those has been a persistent, watery runny nose—present for years, yet rarely mentioned in discussions of Lewy body dementia. When paired with unpredictable night sweating, a pattern begins to emerge: not random nuisances, but signs of an autonomic system that no longer regulates quietly in the background. Sometimes the body is speaking clearly. It is the categories that are still catching up.
Thinking, Carried Heart to Heart
What I see in dementia peer groups is not the loss of intelligence, but its transformation. Ideas move between people—shifting, softening, connecting—until what no one could solve alone becomes something we can carry together. This painting of a circle is not about completeness, but about relationship: an intelligence made not of certainty, but of shared, adaptive, and deeply human ways of knowing.
Creating is How i Remain
Art is not decoration.
It is a load-bearing wall.
When language thins,
structure remains.
Creating is how I remain.
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Dementia Insights: My Journey and New Beginnings
After nearly three years away from blogging, Truthful Loving Kindness has resumed writing due to a regained access to blog administration. Despite cognitive decline, the blog has garnered significant views. Improvements in personal health and ongoing construction projects are highlighted, along with a focus on maintaining hope while managing dementia.
Living with dementia symptoms feels SLIPPERY
My understanding of anything other than touch is very VERY temporary …
Another Bad Day
… For eating, today i need mostly finger food or sippy-cup soup. …
2022 Recent Additions including Art
This entry is written by Truthful Loving Kindness (yes, that is my full legal name) for publishing at http://www.truthfulkindness.com , so PLEASE address any questions or comments to that website, regardless of which website shows these words. i have not done an “Additions Update” since March, so … Dementia awareness is a joint project from […]
Spiritual and Holiday Issues with Dementia Symptoms
Sometimes, a day arrives when it is okay to let go of self-expectations and behaviors that we had chosen with our fully-reasoning brain; returning to traditions from younger, less complicated time of life without guilt.
