The Moon in the Water
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The Moon in the Water

Reflections on an Aging Parent

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The Moon in the Water

Reflections on an Aging Parent

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About This Book

Named a Best Book of 2008 by Library Journal

In a series of moving vignettes, the author begins by describing a particular representation of Water-Moon Kuan Yin, a Buddhist teacher and goddess associated with compassion, who often sits on a precarious overhang or floats on a flimsy petal. Then Kuan Yin steps out of the frame to join the author in the mundane challenges of caring for her father-transferring his health insurance, struggling with a wheelchair van, managing adult diapers, or playing in the fictions of dementia. From perplexed to poignant to funny, the vignettes record the working-class English of a fading but still wise dad, and they find other human versions of Kuan Yin in a doctor who will still make house calls or kind strangers in the street.

The book includes ten illustrations: both classical representations of Kuan Yin and also the author's own drawings, which adapt Kuan Yin in an act of practical spirituality, reading art through life and life through art. Each vignette invites the harried caregiver to take a deep breath and meditate on the trials and joys of caring for an aging parent.

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Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
9780826592392
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Caregiving

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Dug Up Kuan Yin
  6. Pilgrim Gifts
  7. Water Pill
  8. The Moon in the Computer
  9. Waterfall ID
  10. No Moon
  11. Yankee Moon
  12. Transferring the Willow
  13. Willy Moon
  14. Artsy Crappy Moon
  15. Moon Body
  16. Kuan Yin Prescription
  17. Riding the Tides in the Handi-Van
  18. Peace Moon
  19. Moon Passing through Cloud
  20. Blue Moon
  21. Calling the Moon
  22. Moon Dung Kuan Yin
  23. Accidental Moons
  24. Bodhi-Dad
  25. Roundabout Moon
  26. Kuan Yin's Taxable Domain
  27. Slim Pickings/Fat Moon
  28. Moon Rings
  29. Kuan Yin Foot Dangler
  30. ER Moon
  31. Kuan Yin Shopper
  32. Car-Key Kuan
  33. What'd You Say, Kuan?
  34. Weak as Water
  35. Moon Wears Out
  36. Moon Sealed Red (1)
  37. Moon Sealed Red (2)
  38. Kuan Yin Not Contained in a Box
  39. Afterword
  40. Sources for Art Works Described or Reproduced