Understanding begins with showing up

Understanding begins with showing up

There’s something powerful that happened at our center last month. No applause.  Just a small group of people, gathering week after week for a class, choosing to talk about something many of us would rather avoid—our memory.

Not the class itself - that matters, of course. But what has stayed with me wasn’t the curriculum. It was the people.

As I saw them entering the building, I recognized faces.

A longtime donor who, for years, has supported our work. Someone I used to see in one of our support groups. A gentleman I’ve chatted with at a local restaurant during happy hour. A friend of a friend I met years ago.

When memory changes, knowledge can become power

When memory changes, knowledge can become power

It started with a missed appointment—something small enough to brush off, yet just unusual enough to stay with her.

My friend Mary has always been organized, the one who keeps track of everything. So when she forgot a long-standing lunch, she told herself it was simply a busy week. But when it happened again—a misplaced bill, a repeated story, a growing sense that something wasn’t quite right—what began as a moment turned into a question she couldn’t easily answer: Is this just aging, or is it something more?

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