Liz Tafel - Senior VIsitor and Reiki Master

11/28/2018

Please, don't give your pets away!

Please STOP giving free dogs away. This pup didn't deserve the two weeks of torture as a bait dog that he received. Please stop putting your pets on Facebook and Craigslist. These are hot spots for people looking for bait dogs and cats. -------Thank you again for sharing and getting the word out.!!!!

11/08/2017

How do you know when you actually look like a "senior?" When your 10-yr-old grandson says "you are really pretty, Mimi, but you have too much wrinkles on your cute little neck!"

10/14/2015

Dance Class, by Ann Cooper

Mothers and grandmothers,
we coax our morning muscles
and contort our arthritic toes,
cavorting to throbbing rhythms.
Never mind the beanpole teacher,
younger than our daughters,
who shouts steps and encouragement
and knows she'll never be that old.

Humor is our sustaining virtue.
No pain, no gain, we laugh.
Tight thighs are the prize,
grateful we can undertake
routine maintenance for our
sagging, high-mileage bodies.

Inside we are graceful, slim,
and young--recollecting jete'
plie' and grand battement;
floating in gossamer gowns
across Swan Lake landscapes.
Glimpses in the mirrored wall
show us our lissome body myths,
We are immune to the absurdity.

Small boys pass the windows,
grinning, We clown for them--
parody bad backs, pull faces,
confirm their preconceptions
with proof of weird and aged.
We are witches and doubt not
that stiff, wrinkled, and old
beats the sole alternative.

Excerpted fron anthologist Sandra Martz's
bestseller, "Grow Old Along with Me--
The Best Is Yet to Be."

03/20/2015

"Recently I lost a friend--a dear woman who I had been "visiting" for over two years. It was her time to leave and she did it peacefully. Her family misses her, and I do, too. I visited her twice a month where she lived in a Pittsburgh assisted living residence. We would go out to lunch together or visit Phipps flower shows; in the summer we had outdoor picnics, or take a walk in Schenley Oval. In spite of her dementia, we communicated well and she enjoyed being out, taking drives or short walks to see the fall leaves or spring flowers. It was my privilege to know this woman and have her as a friend for the past 2-1/2 years.

02/10/2015

I found this article "5 Tips for Talking with a Person who has Alzheimer's" in the Huffington Post.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marie-marley/five-tips-for-talking-wit_b_6469022.html

01/07/2015

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TESTIMONIALS "Liz is perfect for this job. [senior visiting] She has a sweet disposition and cares deeply about people. She is organized and carefully attends to important detail. More than that, she is fun to be with!" From Joan B. "Just FYI - my mother, friends; I, myself, use your Reiki pillows…

01/07/2015

If you read the text in the cover photo, you will notice it says:
"Winter is the time ...... for the touch of a friendly hand, for a talk beside the ... for a visit from a caring friend."
These are just the things I can provide to a home-bound or Residence-bound older person. I also visit people in hospice.
If you have a loved one or friend who you know is in a lonely situation consider me as their "Senior Visitor."

01/05/2015

I just read this and want to share it with you:
"Prayer For My Aging" by Arupa Chiarini
1.
May my body be
an old tree
inscribed by rain,
one rumpled breast held high
to feel the sun,
one low,
to nurse
the landscape of the earth,
sienna rose of evening time.
2.
May I grow old
with the cypress
by the ocean.
May I be rocked
by the waves,
while my sparse hairs
dance and gossip
with the wind.
3.
May I be the silver birch,
may I stand through the winter,
may I reflect light,
may my desires be written
in black lace calligraphy
on white parchment,
may the universe rejoice
in my beauty.