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Your article really brings home the fact that logical responses are not the best way to go.

Years ago in art school, our photography class was invited to photojournalistically cover a convalescent center populated mostly by seniors. In the day room, I politely asked a pleasant-looking lady seated on a sofa to move closer to the person beside her for a better shot. Her response was to continue to look pleasantly at me, and smile and nod. And not move. That was my first experience of looking into someone’s eyes and seeing that nobody was home. I was young and it rocked me a little.

Weeks later, we were hanging the show of photographs in that same day room when a lady walked over and picked up one of the hammers and proceeded to walk away with it. An attendant gently took it back and she said, “Okay, but give it back when you’re done. It’s my dad’s.” This lady was 70 and Dad was long past swinging a hammer. But the gentle approach worked.

Guess the right thing to do is go with your gut and not your brain.

Well done.
Jay

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