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Third Spaces: A Different Kind of Caregiving

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ThirdSpaces

A few weeks ago, I visited a store that recently opened in my area, InchStone Books, and my first impression was exactly what every independent bookstore hopes to inspire: I wanted to stay. The shelves were thoughtfully curated, the gifts were reading-adjacent in the best possible way, and the chairs looked like they’d been chosen by someone who actually planned for people to sit in them. The atmosphere had that particular quality that’s impossible to manufacture — the feeling that someone who loved books had arranged the place, and that whoever showed up would be welcome here.

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(Water)Melon and Memories

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Melissa May Blog

Memorial Day is a day of remembrance, a time to honor those who died in military service. Yet my grandfather firmly believed the joy mattered too. The gathering. The laughter. The freedom to enjoy an ordinary afternoon with people we love. In his mind, those things were not distractions from remembrance; they were part of it. They were part of what people fought and died to protect.

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The Seven Ages of Caregiving

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7agesofcaregiving

Yesterday was Earth Day. Today is Shakespeare’s birthday. It feels like the universe is asking us to pay attention to cycles — what grows, what endures, what we tend, and what tends us. In As You Like It, the melancholy Jaques famously declares that all the world’s a stage, and one man in his time plays seven parts. He wasn’t wrong. But he left someone out. All the world’s a care home, and all the men and women merely caregivers. They have their exits and their entrances, and one soul in her time tends many parts, each act being one of seven ages of caregiving.

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