'What do I do with all the memories? With all the memories she cannot hold, cannot keep in her leaky-bucket brain? I will keep them safe here, Ma. I will pin them here for posterity. For you.'
is not a gently inclined slope to decrepitude, where with a subtle gradient you can acclimatise at every stage. It’s a series of deep and uneven steps. Each one jars.
She is trying to make sense of the cat’s cradle cast of Alzheimer’s in her mind. Pushing all the lost pieces about trying to form a picture from the puzzle. And as I listen to her, in silence, for I don’t know what to say, as I witness her very real fear, her determination to realign chaos as order, I think of Russell Crowe playingin"A Beautiful Mind," a garden shed papered with press cuttings and webbed with string as schizophrenia crazy-paved his thoughts.
Six ounces of everything, she used to say: “Six of butter, sugar, flour, and 3 eggs, or eight of everything to four eggs. Easy multiples. It’s as simple as that,” she smiled.
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