The character we exhibit in the latter half of our life need not necessarily be, though it often is, our original character, developed further, dried up, exaggerated, or diminished: it can be its exact opposite, like a suit worn inside out.

Marcel Proust

Alzheimer's is a trip. You are first of all an oxymoron -- an adult child -- by the time you get the vicarious experience. But perhaps you colored outside of the lines your own self, tripping through the lobby at 2001 in 1967 (remembering to wear your gravity boots); now's your chance to share the unreality. Black sheep arise and bring your parents through their trip on the Yellow Submarine -- who better?

Table of Contents

Teach your parents well 1



All things must pass 14



Mellow Yellow 33



Day Tripper 34



Who could hang a name on you 46



So happy together



Be here now



Hotel California



The art of dying 99

Shedding all defiling things which bind and envelop,

You attain the state of completeness before birth.

Cultivating immortality, becoming enlightened, all depends on this;

Anything else is in vain, running to extremes.

Chuang Po-Tuan

Essential Teachings for Cultivating Reality

Complete Reality School of Taoism