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24.09.24 Our “์ž…ํŠธ์˜“ and Parenting Group

We are an “์ž…ํŠธ์˜“ study group that first got started in the fall of 2016. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” 2016๋…„ ๊ฐ€์„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•œ ‘์ž…ํŠธ์˜’ ์Šคํ„ฐ๋”” ๊ทธ๋ฃน์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * first get started : ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹After delivering our babies, it felt depressing and stifling to just stay at home all day. ์ถœ์‚ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‚˜์„œ ํ•˜๋ฃจ ์ข…์ผ ์ง‘์—๋งŒ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์šฐ์šธํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ต๋‹ตํ•ด์„œ, * deliver one’s baby : ์ถœ์‚ฐํ•˜๋‹ค* feel depressing and stifling : ์šฐ์šธํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ต๋‹ตํ•˜๋‹ค* just stay at home : ์ง‘์—๋งŒ ์žˆ๋‹คโ€‹So, we formed a group where we ..

24.09.25 Coal Briquette Volunteer Work

I recently went to deliver coal briquettes as volunteer work. I found the project through a volunteer website. ์ €๋Š” ์ตœ๊ทผ์— ํ•œ ์ž์›๋ด‰์‚ฌ ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด์„œ ์•Œ๊ฒŒ ๋œ ์—ฐํƒ„ ๋ฐฐ๋‹ฌ ๋ด‰์‚ฌ ํ™œ๋™์„ ๋‹ค๋…€์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€‹* deliver coal briquettes : ์—ฐํƒ„์„ ๋ฐฐ๋‹ฌํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹* volunteer work : ๋ด‰์‚ฌ ํ™œ๋™โ€‹Volunteers make a donation of 10,000 won which is used to purchase coal briquettes. ๋ด‰์‚ฌ์ž๊ฐ€ ๋งŒ์›์„ ๊ธฐ๋ถ€ํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ทธ ๋ˆ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฐํƒ„์„ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ , โ€‹* make a donation : ๊ธฐ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹The briquettes are then delivered..

24.09.26 Nursing Homes

My 91-year-old mother’s dementia took a turn for the worse this year. โ€‹์˜ฌํ•ด 91์„ธ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์‹  ์–ด๋จธ๋‹ˆ๊ป˜์„œ ์น˜๋งค๊ฐ€ ์ ์  ์‹ฌํ•ด์ง€์…จ๋‹ค. * take a turn for the worse : ์•…ํ™”๋˜๋‹คโ€‹She is taking prescription medication, but it only slows the progression; there is no cure. ์น˜๋งค์•ฝ์„ ์ฒ˜๋ฐฉ๋ฐ›์•„ ๋ณต์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹œ์ง€๋งŒ, ์น˜๋งค๋ฅผ ๋Šฆ์ถœ ๋ฟ์ด์ง€ ์™„์พŒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.* take prescription medication : ์ฒ˜๋ฐฉ์•ฝ์„ ๋ณต์šฉํ•˜๋‹ค* slow the progression : ์•…ํ™”[์ง„์ฒ™]์„ ๋Šฆ์ถ”๋‹ค* there is no cure : ์™„์พŒ๊ฐ€ ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹Caring for m..