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Listening to this might be the best and most moving thing you do today. Susanna and Living Words do astonishing work helping people living with dementia express their poetry. Here's John Offen's poem set to music, and it's beautiful.
The book from @LivingWordsUK, The Things Between Us, is equally powerful, and available at livingwords.org.uk/the-book/. For more on this and other arts projects with people living with dementia, see createdoutofmind.org @createdhub
@LivingWordsUK @createdhub Created Our of Mind convinced me that art created by people living with dementia is not "a way to keep them busy" but has something profound to tell the rest of us. I don't think anyone would doubt that after reading the Living Words book.
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