Living Waters

Living Waters
A person answers [phone]

A day here

Nothing dramatic happens most days. That's rather the point.

Here's what an ordinary Tuesday actually looks like.

Come and see one

[phone]

Ask for [name]

  • Everybody eats together, at a table, off plates
  • Somebody is awake every night, all night, in the house
  • Visits without an appointment
A sunlit kitchen with pancakes and a tea set laid out on the table.
Illustration, not one of our houses.

An ordinary Tuesday

Hour by hour, this is the shape of it.

The deck's instruction for this page was to resist making it sound nice, and make it sound true. Where a line is still in brackets, the specific answer has not come back from the houses yet.

The people who are here
6:30Coffee's on. [Name] is usually the first one up, and has been for [N] years.
7:30Breakfast at the table. Everybody eats together, off plates, at a table. No trays.
8:00Morning medications.
9:00[Whatever actually happens — laundry, the garden, somebody's physical therapy, a shower for whoever's day it is]
10:00[Somebody's show is on. Name the show. Specificity is the whole page.]
12:00Lunch.
1:00[Appointments, the van, naps, the porch]
3:15The kids get home from school and do homework at the kitchen table.
5:30Dinner.
Evening[TV, cards, phone calls home, somebody on the porch]
OvernightSomebody is awake. Every night, all night, in the house.

The shape of it

Morning, afternoon, and the walk before dinner.

An older person's hands holding a ceramic cup.
Illustration — not a resident or a member of our staff.
A jug of flowers on a windowsill behind a lace curtain.
Illustration, not one of our houses.
Two people walking away down a tree-lined path in autumn.
Illustration.

Two of those lines do more work than the rest

The afternoon, and the night.

At 3:15 the kids get home from school and do homework at the kitchen table. They are our caregivers' children, and they are here because nobody should have to choose between their own child and somebody else's parent.

Overnight, somebody is awake. Every night, all night, in the house. Not on call, not down the corridor — awake, in the house.

Why we do it that way

Come and look

The best way to understand a house is to walk into one.

Any day, no appointment. Come at 3:15 if you want to see the part that surprises people.

[phone]Ask for [name]
A person answers — including weekends
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