Lifelines for MCI is back after an unavoidable and unplanned hiatus. Please accept our deepest apologies for the silence, and know that you never left our thoughts. Here’s to finding a way and sticking with it for the long haul.
Quotations to Think About Today
“I believe with my life, with how I live.” – Carolyn Forché
Ring the bells that can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in
-Leonard Cohen
It doesn't matter who hurt you or broke you down.
What matters is who made you smile again.
True friends are those who come to find you in dark places and lead you back to the light.
-Steven Aitchison
Challenges for Today
Sitting at a four-legged table there is: 1 grandma, 2 moms, 2 daughters and a granddaughter. How many legs are under the table?
Boggle: See how many words you can find. Letters can connect in any direction; each letter can be used only once in each word.
1st row: T E R H A
2nd row: A D D T R
3rd row: R R E N R
4th row: C T I B S
5th row: V A R E C
Poem for Today
Making a Fist – Naomi Shihab Nye
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
—Jorge Luis Borges
For the first time, on the road north of Tampico,
I felt the life sliding out of me,
a drum in the desert, harder and harder to hear.
I was seven, I lay in the car
watching palm trees swirl a sickening pattern past the glass.
My stomach was a melon split wide inside my skin.
“How do you know if you are going to die?”
I begged my mother.
We had been traveling for days.
With strange confidence she answered,
“When you can no longer make a fist.”
Years later I smile to think of that journey,
the borders we must cross separately,
stamped with our unanswerable woes.
I who did not die, who am still living,
still lying in the backseat behind all my questions,
clenching and opening one small hand.
Answer is 10 (3 women of 3 different generations and 4 table legs)