Saturday, March 2, 2019

Names on apartment doors


Names on apartment doors keep changing.

Apartment #32:

HER name was Olive.  Olive in assisted living.
But I thought of her as Woodstock.
Woodstock because she popped up here and there without saying a word, 
just like the little bird in the comic strip, Peanuts

Most every day, Cindy,  a resident with short term memory loss,  found Olive waiting for her,  perched in a flower print chair just outside the lunch room.  The bob of her head was  a  welcome greeting.  They sat together and chatted, the two.
Then,  one day,  Olive wasn't there.  She had flown away. 
Cindy remembered, and missed her.  

Elderly play and care at hollyhockjunction