More To Be Thankful For, with Daphne Davis
Daphne Davis at Pinnacle Senior Placements gives us more things to be thankful for during COVID crisis.
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The following podcast is provided by pinnacles senior placements LLC and answers for elders radio. And Welcome back to answers for elders radio with our Wonderful Daphne Davis from pinnacle senior placements. Daphne, you’ve been such an inspiration this hour and you know I want to close out the program today with talking about what we’re grateful for, because you are certainly one that reminds me of that every day of the year and now especially to be able to share this hour with you. It I am truly grateful for because it makes my mind go to so many different things. Of You know, I am so blessed and you are part of those blessings. So thank you for everything that you do, not only for me, but for the world around you and all of our seniors and everything that’s going on right now your world. You’re probably in the eye of the hurricane, kind of like what I am fielding phone calls, different things like that. I would love to have you touch on you know how is you know what are the things that we can be grateful for overall. I mean you’re you’ve got some great ideas, but you probably understood a lot more when it comes for seniors. You know, one thing that’s come out for me is my little hiccups and at the moment when I have something go a little haywire in my life, it’s devastating and I send, you know, either minister, hours or days thinking about it. But what has come out of this whole covid nineteen time period for me, in the phone calls that I have been working with the people, is how much my situation is really not that traumatic. It is a hind and I don’t mean to make light of what people’s stories are, but when you listen to other people and when you allow other people into your life, it gives you perspective, and so one of the things that I’m grateful for is being in a position that I can be given perspective through people’s stories, and so I want everyone to hear that was total sincerity. I love getting your phone calls, I love having you answer questions. I am working with some families that were, like you know, definitely we talked to you three months ago and we were going to do this. Should we do it now? We were going to move mom and dad and we talk through what what are the pluses in the I’m able to share information with communities that are accepting new residents and people that are not. It gives me perspective to my own life. Your phone calls your stories, and so I am grateful for other people in the in their story ways. I mean that when a total sincerity, let other people in your life to magnify your own personal gratitude. Sure out to other people, and sometimes all we have is our phone, or we talked earlier this segment. You know about sending a card or a letter or the note. There’s lots of power in that and you do not know the ripple effect that you may have by extending yourself just a little bit. So that’s one thing that I’m really grateful or is just the interaction and how it gives me perspective. You will be surprised what others perspective you will get in your life. Another thing that I’m very grateful for, and normally I’m not, I have to say it, is technology. I’m a yes, you are technology. I could not do my job right now. If it wasn’t for technology. I would not have the connection like I shared with you earlier on Easter Sunday connection with my cousins and my aunts and uncle, if it wasn’t right technology that we have. Usually I’m yelling at the technology because this operator has operator are all the time, but now I’m modeling it. It is so when you your feet are pushed to the fire that you have to learn something new and in situations that I’ve been in, I could do it. I didn’t get to be the dog got it and though so I now that time and I’m grateful for is the can continuation of choice. We have a lot of things that have been taken away from us. Is One perspective that we can have. We can’t do this, this and this, but I challenge everyone turn that into but what can I do? Because I can’t get in my car and go to my office? What things can I do at home? And if you’re fortunate enough to be one of those people that can do your job at home or your employer has figured out ways to doing that, I’m sure that it has been a huge learning curve of how to have virtual meetings all the time instead of walking over to someone’s desk and saying hi right shop before him and take care of business. That is different, but is thinking about the things that we can’t what choice, what you choice were you’ve given. You will be surprised what you can come up with in terms of just tweaking your thinking a little bit. Well, and DAFFE, coming back to that, one thing I’m going to say I’m grateful for that is real obvious. Aren’t we grateful for Vitamin D right now? About my Fashine, oh my Godine has been I mean just to be able to walk out into the garden, out into you know, take a little walk with the dog, to take some time with your you know, your loved ones, out in the yard, social distancing, you know, getting out in the neighborhood. I know that I’ve been shouting across the fence to my other neighbor and and that’s been kind of fun. I have my I’m neighbors with former Seahawk Antonio Edwards, and so Antonia and I have he comes and sits out on his deck when he gets home from work and certainly I I’m out there and we’re talking about things and, you know, just life in general that we never would have done before because we’re sitting here with nothing to do. We’re not running around, you know, and not like you said, we’re not taken inventory of ourselves, you know, and I’ve learned things about his background, learned things a little bit about what’s going on in his world that I never would have known before, and I think that’s really cool. And the other thing I have to say that I’m grateful for is humor and, like you said, being able to laugh. I go on facebook and some of the funny things that people are are saying our pretty and you know, about different jokes and things about, you know, about being a quarantine. I just saw youtube video where somebody was cutting her husband’s hair and it was the funniest thing I’ve ever seen. I laugh so hard because she doesn’t know how to cut hair, but it’s like, you know, it’s quarantine are and it’s it’s the funniest video in the world. So I’m grateful, like you said, is I’m grateful for social media. I’m grateful for Facebook, I’m grateful for the ability to converse with zoom. I’m grateful for Youtube, I’m grateful for Netflix or, you know, things like that. I think the other thing that is having the ability to have you don’t have to go out to a video store a dvd to go rent DVD’s. You’ve got them right there at your fingertips. There’s so many things that week and, like you said, in the whole technology factor, have these resources and they’re easy. They’re super easy to use. It’s just a matter of, you know, getting yourself to sit down and be quiet and to learn and, and I am to have to say, it’s also learning that, you know, my nails look atrocious right now. I’m laughing because absolutely intertly ridiculous, crazy and and and all I have to say is is that, you know, I all I’m doing is laughing. It’s like, you know, there’s nothing I could do about it, and so, other than just really just dealing with what we’ve got as is what it is. I’ve never used a nail file more in my life than now. And you know, those are the things that you just learn to have a sense of humor about things that you that you used to stress out all over and it’s like now it’s like I’m lucky. It’s so funny because so many people are saying like well, you know, I don’t know what color sweatpants I’m get aware of today, or, you know, different things that people are saying, and I love it. I love the fact that we’re we as a community are learning to not only support each other and come together and hard times, which is what’s happened. But I think the other thing is is I think we’re learning not to take ourselves so seriously. I think you’re right. You know, a general thing that you’ve brought up here and it’s just kind of came to me, are recognizing our humanity and having the yet freedom, the freedom to slow down. And you know, my nails. I know this is very trite, but my nails had never looked like how they look and probably twenty five years. But it’s the things are thinking. But you know what it we’re all human beings with fingernails that, underneath that acrylic or whatever we do, we all have the same kind of thing a nails. We all have the same cutical issues, we all have, you know, filing that we need to on our nails. What a great equalizer we are together. We’re STILLMANS. We don’t have to worry about any of the trite, superficial show yes around us. What a gift from this covid nineteen. I mean talk about a silver lining. It has been absolutely awful for very many families and I it’s nothing to to make light of. But at the same time, if we work hard at it, that list of gratitude, and I’m going to now call it kind of the silver lining that we can find during this time, you can be so huge and maybe we can all just start our silver lining list. You know, we’re going to come out of this and we’re going to have post covid nineteen pluses the silver lining. You know how that would be to put on facebook? It would be amazing. And I think the other thing, just really come back to that, which I think is really important, is the fact that you know, yes, we can have a silver lining, but learn to find things to laugh you know, it’s sometimes you have to look for it and maybe you have to maybe force yourself to laugh a little bit, but you know, it’s realizing that, you know, we’re all going through stuff and it’s like I tell you, I find things to laugh at. Normally I’m not a big TV watcher right but I now I’m enjoying things that I can laugh at. Me I’ve been watching like the daily show or or, you know, I’m courting watching like late night, like Jimmy Fallon or Saturday night lives, you know, saying or you know, things like that, special things where people have come together, and I think that is getting myself to start laughing, to have, you know, again not taking the world so seriously. Yes, there’s some tragedy out there, but the point that I’m making is, and I think we’re both making, is is that find that silver lining. So I am yet world. Yeah, we have that. So, dafinitely. How do we reach you? You can reach Daphne or emily or Alana or Trish or NAN or Jalene. You can need any of us at Pinnacle Senior Placementscom our website and you can reach your set a five, seven, thirty, four, fifteen hundred and we would be so happy to talk with you. Maybe it’s just to reach out and say, Hey, I’m alive here. Are You alive? I mean just reach out. If you need to get talk to somebody, you know, call we’re here. Daphye, thank you so much for this hour and who you are. You’re so very welcome. We love what we do, so thank you. The preceding podcast was provided by pinnacles senior placements LLC and answers for elders radio to contact pinnacles senior placements. Go to Pinnacle Senior Placementscom
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Originally published April 19, 2020