For over ten years now, I have been contemplating the nature of elders, elderhood, and the near absence of what I have come to believe is essential…… Read more “Elders are MADE”
Author: Nathan
“I wish I didn’t have special muscles…”
“I wish I didn’t have special muscles,” Brendan said to me as I struggled to pull both him and his younger brother through the Farmers Market, with…… Read more ““I wish I didn’t have special muscles…””
On Being Thorough
For some of us unlucky folks (or perhaps lucky), thoroughness does not come naturally. “This is good enough,” we say. So a job is done, but maybe…… Read more “On Being Thorough”
Light in the Darkness
Sometimes, I am keenly aware that my writing, processing, thinking, and speaking tends towards the dark, the haggard, and the grief-slog of day-in-day-out challenges. Often the things…… Read more “Light in the Darkness”
Emotional burden not burnout
Down time, some quiet, a couple moments of peace between one emotional, heavy day in patient rooms and family waiting rooms and another heavy, emotional grief group…… Read more “Emotional burden not burnout”
Nathan Bettger | Oshkosh, WI 