The Living~Dying Duet: Both Were Dancing Solos in My Life

Not Yet a Duet, but Living and Dying Were Both Dancing

My life has become a Living~Dying Duet. With the shock of my diagnosis with Early-Stage Dementia only dying was dancing in my life, and then with time I felt living dancing also.

Both dying and living were dancing solos. Both were very present in my life, but I was feeling how different they were -- one was dancing rumba and the other was dancing ballet. The dances were different and the music that each was dancing to was different.

But yet -- both were dancing and both were present. As happens often in the new world I was living in of Early-Stage Dementia, things moved in very unexpected ways. Living and dying were dancing solos but they were both dancing in my life -- there was a connection between them.

Feeling and exploring the connection between the solos that living and dying were dancing in my life became a very powerful part of the new world of dementia that I was in.