Appreciating our Caregivers

Next week I’m going to deliver the closing keynote at the Caregivers Association Annual conference. In my audience will be five hundred people who truly make a difference. My dear friend, Megon McDonough is singing her song: Amazing Things right after my speech. She’s Amazing!

It’s important work because we will be there to thank them, congratulate them and motivate them. I think of it as a sort of USO event. And I’m really excited. There will be several staff members from my father’s assisted living facility, The Commons on Marice. I see these people every day when I care for and visit my father. They’re always smiling. They inspire me.

And now, I must inspire them.

Thanking them will be easy, creating a congratulatory presentation will be a cakewalk, but the inspiration part… well, let’s just say, I’ve spent a lot of time contemplating what I’m going to say, researching and watching. And some days there simply are no words.

I’ll keep you posted as this presentation changes by the moment. But for now, I’ll have to sign off so I can order the remainder of the animals for the parade and the ticker-tape.