Date posted: February 27, 2011
This quote came from a group of people happy to be getting together after a series of snowfalls kept us from our weekly gathering. One after another echoed the sentiment until finally we had an almost out-of-control chorus chanting a shared refrain:
“We may not be all there, but we’re all here!”
As we settled into our conversation together, we realized that something pretty profound had just happened. Here was a group of people who all knew that their memories were slipping, thinking was sometimes labored, words often lost, etc, etc,. And yet in the midst of all these losses, they could celebrate the fact that even though they weren’t always “all there”, they were very much present in the moment, the “here” and now.
Living in the present is a challenge for all of us but for people with memory loss, these can be words to live by.
We’re thinking of making it into a banner!
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