“It was getting harder for Agnes to hide her pets, even under a big jacket.”
Drawing and caption by Jane Hart.
Paintings by Kendal Residents for the Infant Boxes Given to Newborns by Open Door
Photos by Open Door
Some of the residents doing the paintings.
Interesting Article in the New York Times about Taking Photos with Cell Phones
Click here to see the article.
Signs of Spring in Rockefeller Preserve Captured by Martin Smolin
Photos by Martin Smolin
Art by Hart
“Greg would have much preferred a room for himself” by Jane Hart
There's a Kendal Resident Who Changed the Relationship between American Jews and Germany
You can read about him here.
Art by Hart
The Question Was, Who Would Write the Thank You Note
Sara Bennett Photographs, “Inside and Out,” Katonah Village Library
From March 7 to April 30, the Katonah Village Library will host a photography exhibit of women who currently are or have been incarcerated at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility and Taconic Correctional Facility, both in Bedford Hills.
An opening reception, where the photographer and some of her portrait subjects will be present, will be held on Saturday, March 7 from 2-4 pm. The public is welcome.
“Inside and Out: Selections from Looking Inside: Portraits of Women Serving Life Sentences and Life After Life in Prison: The Bedroom Project” will include more than thirty photographs by Sara Bennett. Before becoming a photographer documenting women with life sentences, Bennett worked for eighteen years as a public defender specializing in representing battered women and the wrongly convicted.
Bennett regards her photography as a way to depict the injustices she saw when she was a criminal defense lawyer. She hopes her work “will shed light on the pointlessness of extremely long sentences, arbitrary parole denials, and what to do with a redeemed life.”
Sara Bennett’s portfolio can be viewed at lifeafterlifeinprison.com
Kendal Residents February 21 Enjoying “Coffee with a Cop” from Sleepy Hollow
Photos by Arthur Brady
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KoH Trip to Asia Society February 19, 2020
Photos by Arthur Brady
Kendal Class Visits a Buddhist Monastery
Photos by Iris Sampliner
The Kendal Class taught by Marjorie Miller studying Buddhism took an interesting field trip Feb. 13 to a Tibetan Monastery in Wappinger Falls, NY.
Art by Hart
Carbonated Cats Were Flying Off the Shelves
Martin Smolin Shared a Recent Letter from Compassion and Choices
Martin,
Have you heard? Finish Strong: Putting YOUR Priorities First at Life’s End is now available as an audiobook!
Barbara Coombs Lee, Compassion & Choices President Emerita and Senior Adviser, and author of Finish Strong, recorded the audiobook herself to share these important stories and learnings with you. Barbara’s decades of experience and wealth of knowledge can help you jumpstart the most important conversations about end-of-life options with your loved ones and doctors. But don’t forget, you have many resources in addition to this new audiobook to help you plan for the end of life.
Compassion & Choices is proud to offer a host of tools and resources to help you and your loved ones finish strong. Here are just some of the resources you can use today to plan an end of life with love, purpose, and agency:
Dementia Values & Priorities Tool
This online resource helps you stay in control of your life and care in the early stages of a dementia diagnosis. You will be able to provide a set of clear-cut care instructions to your loved ones, outlining your intentions through a personalized care plan called a Dementia Healthcare Directive.
Diagnosis Decoder
The Diagnosis Decoder is an easy-to-use online tool that helps you find the right questions to ask to get the care you want. It will also help you prepare for a general medical appointment, oncology appointment or dementia care. Your questions can be printed or emailed to a provider or family member to help guide important discussions during medical appointments.
My End-of-Life Decision Guide and Toolkit
This guide and toolkit will help you work through your end-of-life priorities and empower you to have valuable discussions with your healthcare providers. The toolkit includes forms you can use right away for advance-care planning.
Plan Your Care Resource Center
Our website includes dozens of end-of-life resources: information about your state’s advance directives, guides to prioritizing your end-of-life options and tips on how to talk to your doctor about the end of life. The Plan Your Care Resource Center also includes Spanish-language resources—a glossary of terms, informational packets, videos and much more.
I hope these tools can help you and your loved ones have these critical conversations when facing end-of-life decisions and care.
An Unusual Sunset February 13, 2020 by Martin Smolin
Photo by Martin Smolin
Canberra, Australia Burning by Night
Photo sent from Australia by a friend of Sally Kellock’s brother
Art By Hart
“Barn to be Wild” by Jane Hart
Woman at Kendal Ithaca Explores Whether She Can Refuse Assisted Eating When She Becomes Demented
Click here to read the article.
Pectoral (the Rao Pectoral) from Northwest Senegal in the Metropolitan Museum's "Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara" Exhibit
Photo by Caroline Persell
Art by Hart
Drawing by Jane Hart
Watch this space for future art by Jane or possibly other residents.
If You're Thinking We Have Winter, Check Out these Photos by Anne White from Minnesota
Artist’s Point
Ice Breaking Up on Lake Superior
Taking Shelter