Too windy! - Thursday Oct 10

Bouncing around in 15 mph wind with 15 million other fisherman - not catching fish. Wind from the east, fishing is least!

Under the bridge!

Fishing Day - Wednesday Oct 9

 Caught 11 fish, but not one as big as 11 inches: 

1 pigfish, 6 pinfish, 3 mangrove snappers and 1 little jack crevalle.

Shrimp trawler at Caribe Marina

Jetty and Jellyfish - Tuesday Oct 8

Beach Walk - Monday Oct 7

Wind Drift home- Sunday Oct 6

Orange Beach Bound - Saturday Oct 5

In the Moment

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Alzheimer's Disease takes away the past and the future, the before and after, leaving only the present moment. In a way, it is a distillation of the reality in which we all live. However, we are so busy worrying about the past or fretting over the future that we fail to appreciate and live in the present.

The caregiver/loved one bears the pain and the burden of remembering. The caregiver/loved one worries about what will happen next. The Alzheimer's patient, in the last stages is free of those cares. What remains is a mystery. Caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's gives insight that love remains, even if the subject of that love is forgotten. Self remains, though changed because a critical part of self-identity lives in relationships, in shared experience and shared memory.

In the last days of my mother-in-law's life, when Alzheimer's had taken everything but the present moment, I posted this verse above her bed with a reminder to her care-givers to be kind in that moment. In her former self, she was a brilliant woman but beset by anxiety all her life. I imaged her in those last days feeling as David did: “Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing; O Lord, heal me, for my bones are shaking with terror. My soul also is struck with terror, while you, O Lord—how long? Turn, O Lord, save my life; deliver me for the sake of your steadfast love.” Psalm 6:2-4.

This was my prayer for her, that her Lord would deliver her for the sake of love.