Thursday, June 25, 2009

What's in a name?

The name of this blog comes from a lyric in song called Springtime from Donald Fagen. The phrase is used several times throughout the song but the very first line is "Here at Laughing Pines where the party never ends.....". I guess I've always thought that this would be a great name for an estate or a vacation house but the more I think about it, it sounds just as fitting for the name of an insane asylum or retirement home and "the party never ends.." is said very tongue-in-cheek. Having completed my clinicals for my CNA mostly in the Alzheimers wing of a long term care facility I can hear the workers saying those words in the same way you would hear people say "Same shit, different day" if you asked them how they were doing. As for the residents? Well, they say that ignorance is bliss and so the party never ends for them. Either way I suppose there's a Laughing Pines somewhere down the line in my future, I just hope that I end up in the one with a beach!

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