This photo of Mum and I was taken during the last few days I saw her in the UK. I hope it goes some way to explaining why the tag line for Dementia Journeys is smiles, love and laughter. This cascading haiku (a set of linked haiku where the last line of a haiku forms the first line of the next and, the last line of the set is the same as the first line) was prompted by seeing this photo again...
I recently launched a new social venture website Dementia Journeys - www.dementiajourneys.com. My hope is that it will grow into a forum where people taking such a journey can come to find information and communicate with others in remembering the smiles, love and laughter.
This Dementia Journeys Haiku explores the feelings I had living in Australia knowing that I was unlikely to see my Mum in the UK before her Dementia Journey ended.
I’m please to announce the launch of my new social venture, www.dementiajourneys.com.
The inspiration behind the Dementia Journeys website was Anne Belchamber, the mother to my sisters and I as well as a Gran and Great Gran.
Mum ended her Dementia Journey on 31st January 2013. It was a journey that spanned many years and two hemispheres with her family in the UK and Australia. Each one of Mum’s family and friends took their own Dementia Journey with her. Not one of those journeys was the same, each had their own twists and turns, highs and lows. Something that these journeys with Mum had in common (even through the tears) was smiles, love and laughter. This was Mum’s gift and her legacy to us all – and it’s the philosophy that underpins this website. Continue reading
I’m pleased to announce that you can now purchase JRB’s Haiku Journey as an Apple iBook. Continue reading
G’day my friends,
I’d like to invite those of you on Facebook to come along and ‘Like’ JRB’s Haiku Journey page. You may find some faces you know there already and let’s face it, the more the merrier!
Smiles, love and laughter
John Belchamber
My sister Julie talking about my Mum Anne and the wonderful Dementia care she received by the team at Critchill Court in Frome, Somerset, UK.
I’m happy to receive the first copy of my book JRB’s Haiku Journey and even happier that I’ve already sold some!
You can get a copy of the paperback or eBook versions here
Smiles, love and laughter.
John Belchamber
JRB’s Haiku Journey Edition One – I’m pleased to announce that I have published my first collection of Haiku in JRB’s Haiku Journey which is now available in eBook and Paperback formats. Continue reading
To my Mum, Anne Belchamber 9th March 1936 – 31st January 2013 Continue reading
In this TED Talk, Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure — and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. Is success always earned? Is failure? He makes an eloquent, witty case to move beyond snobbery to find true pleasure in our work. Continue reading
