Deb Beausoleil 📷🌅📸 she/her on Nostr: After a year of trauma, loss, and learning things I never expected to need, I’m ...

After a year of trauma, loss, and learning things I never expected to need, I’m thinking about writing a practical survival guide for ordinary people facing life’s upheavals.

I’d share what I learned about everything from arranging trash pickup in an unfamiliar town to checking the heat at a property a thousand miles away. I’d also cover the bigger questions, like guardianship versus conservatorship, and why an estate attorney advised me against letting a nursing home complete my loved one’s Medicaid application.

And I’d include the small things that helped me stay steady. Like how, at night, when worry kept me awake, I’d picture little filmstrips of photos I’d taken. It gave my mind somewhere else to go.

Maybe some of it could help someone else wondering where to start.

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