From my friend Harry Urban, living with Alzheimer’s diagnosis since Jan 2004 (22 years now).  He is one of my primary mentors and specializes in accepting life as it IS, living in the moment, and using craft projects to stay involved, keeping dementia symptoms in perspective with priority of living life. Harry shared these words on 7 February 2026 and the laser-craft project on 22 January 2026.

I know it is cold outside so why complain about it, there is nothing I can do about it. This is also true with my dementia, I know it is going to get harder for me but like it getting colder outside, there is nothing I can do about it.

If I can keep that thought in mind, life will be so much easier for me. We at times tend to play the what ifs games and worry about what may be down the road that we miss out on the JOYS we could be having now.

Worrying about the future is natural and maybe we can’t help doing it, but planning would certainly help a lot more. Planning ahead will ease the worries of what may come in the future and give you the opportunity to enjoy those days.

— Above text is from Harry Urban on 7Feb2026 at >> https://www.facebook.com/harry.urban1/posts/pfbid0r6AcUg6Xzrzad5GHmbsny4hAC4TNBvy9sSaz1han9zYzZfRsJYcHfRFZfwXv3Etfl<< … and he shared Laser-Printer craft project 22Jan2026; “The cold weather nor the upcoming snowstorm will prevent me from making something. Of coarse Hazel want to hang it in the kitchen.”

Ai nicely summarizes the above as “… uses the cold weather as a metaphor for facing dementia, emphasizing that some things—like the weather or the progression of dementia—are beyond our control. It encourages accepting what cannot be changed rather than worrying about it, pointing out that worrying about the future or playing “what if” games can prevent us from enjoying the present. The document suggests that while worrying is natural, planning for the future can help ease anxieties and allow us to better appreciate each day.”

Harry’s index page is at >> https://truthfulkindness.com/index-persons-with-dementia-pwd/harry-urban/ .

Below is one of Harry’s favorite past projects from wood-turning days.

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Due to wood dust and respiratory issues … along with dementia symptoms, Harry is now unable to do much on the Lathe,

so he has found some alternate gift-giving CRAFTS:

These days, Harry Urban does a lot of “Diamond Art Painting” (which is adding craft rhinestones to canvas; similar to cross-stitch and paint-by-numbers. He is also currently quite involved with 3D printer projects.

.Harry is living with Alzheimer ‘s-type dementia and probably also vascular-type dementia.

Invested 3 hours on this blog page for Harry Urban. ******* SUBSCRIPTION box is now at the bottom of each blog entry. … My own full legal name is Truthful Loving Kindness. My current formal diagnosis is still clinically at stage of “Mild Cognitive Impairment”, altho my Primary Care Physician and several other medical personnel disagree. In the past several years, We have agreed to quit seeing specialists for further clinical clarification of diagnosis and stage. Specialists are too far away, and the emotional roller-coaster is not worth it to me. My dementia symptoms are mostly Lewy Body and Vascular types of dementia symptoms, but SPECT and PET scans show my brain damage is currently most serious in the temporal lobes, which creates a lot of similarities with Logopenic variant of PPA (sub-type of Fronto-Temporal type of dementia). Current theory for the cause of my dementia symptoms is 33 years of un-diagnosed and un-treated Lyme and Babesia (which specifically targets the brain functions) before 5 years of intensive treatment for tick-borne diseases, plus probable nocturnal seizures.  … ******* …   Text Copyright © Harry Urban on 07Feb2026, and photo copyright to Harry Urban on 22Jan2026.   … You can find more about me in this blog under the “About Me” tab (although that page was posted long ago and also needs an update). Feel free to leave your thoughts here in the form of comments, but please filter your comments with truthful loving kindness to all concerned. … *** 2026 i have begun to use “Grammarly” editor; This sacrifices my particular writing style but improves readability and reduces the time I spend in the writing process. I am still on the “free” version of the blog (except for the domain name TruthfulKindness), so I notice there are now quite a few more advertisements on the page. Sorry. Currently in negotiations to transfer to the paid version of the blog to avoid advertisements. I have no control over which advertisements are shown. … ******* …  I don’t mind re-posting of things I write, but if you re-post, then I expect you to make it clear this is NOT written by you. My authorship as Truthful Kindness (my legal name) must be clearly identified, and you must provide a very prominent Link to my website so that questions and comments can be addressed to ME personally at http://www.truthfulkindness.com.

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tags: acceptance, alzheimers, craft, creativity, dementia, Harry Urban, person with dementia, PLwD, vascular. Add to Pgs/ HU index, S&S Categ: Joy

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