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Kind things to do for your parents and relatives
For the family you did not choose and mostly see on fixed dates. A lot of these are about asking something while asking is still an ordinary conversation rather than an urgent one.
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Talk to the one who married in
Every family gathering has somebody who knows none of the stories, and everybody is assuming somebody else is talking to them.
Half an hourFreeA relative
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Call the relative you only see at funerals
Nobody fell out. It lapsed on its own, and now the only time you are in a room together is when somebody has died.
5 minutesFreeA relative
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Ask now what they would want
Where they want to be, who decides, what they would refuse. Asked over tea it is a conversation. Asked in a corridor it is a crisis.
Half an hourFreeA relative
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Turn up when there is no occasion
Birthdays and Christmas are obligations. A Tuesday is a choice, and everybody can tell the difference.
An afternoonFreeA relative
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Deal with the thing they keep meaning to deal with
The cupboard door, the unopened letter, the tap. It has been on their list for two years and it is forty minutes of yours.
An afternoonUnder $10A relative
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Write down how their house actually works
Which tap drips, where the stopcock is, who fixes the boiler. One page, on the fridge, for whoever needs it next.
Half an hourFreeA relative
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