
Faith when you lose your parents
By Robin Thomson . Published 2020-10-23
BOLD-LivingShoko Thomson, who died living with Alzheimers, wrote this account in 2012, the year she was diagnosed
Everybody lives by faith. Shoko’s background was very different from mine, growing up in Japan: She wrote this account in 2012, the year she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's:I was brought up in a loving and strict Buddhist home. Every morning, after waking up and washing my face I would kneel in front of the family altar in the guest room. My prayer was
- to be a good girl throughout the day
- to be kind to others and not to face any danger or illness, which would be the consequences of any bad actions, a punishment by Buddha.
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