Pursue Your Memories

Alzheimer’s Can Diminish. Trauma Can Repress. But, Understanding Our Memories Can Lead to Enlightenment, Healing, and Empowerment

Most Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays I visit my wife at a “memory care and assisted living” facility where she resides.

It was about eleven years ago that we were sitting in our living room having a conversation. Ten minutes later we repeated the same conversation and I asked her if she knew what had just happened. She did not.

There were further such experiences of memory loss that we began to dismiss with the…