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By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis and their crowd of “seniors” working with each other and the younger establishment in memory matters.
Accepting the verity that almost at birth memory begins to do wacky things in the forgetting department—Where did Mom put those cookies? —and this failing accelerates with age until remembering your neighbor’s name would be embarrassing if it were not for the fact that he cannot remember yours.
There are lots of helpful suggestions, one of them being to associate what you want to remember with mental pictures from your first exposure to it, say the outrageous video of the POTUS publicly ridiculing a visibly handicapped journalist. Having seen this unforgettable video is it possible to forget it and elect such an insensitive narcissist to the most powerful post in the world?
Living with the painful daily answer to that question poses a bigger memory question: How long will it take to forget the insulting inhumane machinations of the orange one and put basic decency back in personal and global play?
Staff up those memory care units!
