Native American Environmental Mystery

Anasazi Medium

“When all the trees have been cut down, When all the animals have been hunted, When all the waters are polluted, When all the air is unsafe to breathe, Only then will you discover you cannot eat money …”
— Cree Prophecy

Rachel must travel to the Land of the Dead to discover how to stop the Blue Star Kachina from destroying Earth. There she speaks with Másaw, the Skeleton Man, Hopi Lord of the Dead in this environmental thriller.

Available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08C99TGDH?ref_=pe_3052080_276849420

Review: “Exciting, tension filled and a must read.”

 

NATIONAL ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE MONTH – November 2020

The Pain of Learning Your Friend Has Early Onset Dementia

by G G Collins         Copyright 2020

When my incredibly smart and talented friend told me she had early onset dementia, I didn’t know what to think except I was suddenly very afraid for her and wanted to protect her. In her gentle way, she tried to tell me it would be okay. Okay?! How could anything this devastating be okay?

She methodically told me what was going to happen in a detached way as though she were talking about someone else. The disease would first take her memory and then turn her into a combative, maybe violent sick person. She had already lost interest in using her computer and cell phone. And worse, she had been fired for messing up a work project.

This was the last time I would see her because she had to give up driving, having gotten lost several times already, and she wanted me to remember her as she is now. But she told me she would love me for eternity even if she didn’t remember me. I’m sitting there listening in horror and wondering how this could happen to my vibrant, loving friend of 20-some years who could do anything.

As someone who works with words for a living, I tried to come up with words to reassure her, reassure me, stop this from happening. But there are no words for anything so horrible. And how do you change the subject from this to how pretty the fall foliage is? She tried and I tried, but I couldn’t think of anything else but I was losing my friend forever. She had absorbed some of the implications already while I was staggering around thinking of the unfairness and the loss that was coming, was already here. And then we hugged for the last time and said, “See you later,” knowing it wasn’t true.

She went home to ride out the gathering storm and I drove home fighting tears, already grieving her impending loss.

 

For more information: https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/what-is-alzheimers/younger-early-onset

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