I’m watching my Dad lose his memories. And at first, I thought, “what are we without our memories?”
The more I spend time with him the more I realize that there is more to a person that their memories. While the person that is my dad is no longer how I remember “my dad”, that person does still perceive the world. How might I help him perceive the world in a way that brings him a smile?
Alzheimer’s sucks. It’s a shitty disease and I hope you never have to deal with it. That said, life shows us a silver lining… the constraint that is memory. The creative embraces the constraint and says “i can make that work.”
