Remember This.....

    Each decade there are big changes in our life. There are certainly daily moments of change, small tweaks here and there, but each ten years, I see a big difference.
    The sixties have jumped on the bandwagon, and seems to be messing with my memory. Yes, there are many more aches and pains, to be expected but the mind going south! That is something we all dread, or do we?
     Do I need to sign up for a drug trial for lack of remembering? Maybe tomorrow, but right now, I still have a smile on my face.
     This week, maybe it was last, I had help in the kitchen. I had cooked supper for The Baron Bunch, and as they should, offered to clean.
     A few days latter, I pulled out the baked ziti and began the reheating of leftovers, for Bill and myself. As I stood in front of the fridge, lost in space, he said, " What are you looking for?" I had remembered how good the salad was, and I knew I had saved a bite or two, so I wanted to add that to our menu. I explained that it was gone, and no one eats salad for lunch but me, so who took my salad! I was texting the kids, Bill was thinking someone threw it away, I was searching. I told Dr. B. that I had used a new plastic bowl with a green lid, I would not have thrown that away?? I  did not clean up the kitchen, so maybe someone took it home with them? Then I decided to show Bill what I had put the salad in, to help jog his much older!!! memory. There it was, sitting in the Tupperware, plastic vortex of all shapes and sizes. My little salad, turned to green mush, " What the heck, happened here?" " This is a sign, a bad sign!" we laughed, and kept moving. That is what you do, keep moving. I had a doctor tell me, the first sign of no brain disease, is that you do not know you have lost anything. So I guess we are OK?! I just see certain signs of age, and fleeting brain cells, and unlike my husband, I participated in the 1960's, 1970's and maybe into the 80"s full tilt! No stone left unturned, so I have to hold on to all my precious cells!! I recently told him, that I had read, that extremely smart people get kooky first, Dr. Baron! But well rounded smart people, like you know who, works all of her brain! Just think, who found the salad! ( He just pulls out a chemistry book, or The Princeton Alumni mag, and shrugs his shoulders!) I also reminded him that a recent neurologist told me, that artist are the last to lose brain cells! ( you don't think that we have fewer to lose! NEVER!!!)
   We both see changes, we embrace the day, each one with renewed strength and curiosity. It is a job, this living, and we work hard to remember this.........
   What was it?  I just don't know, but I can sing all of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young!!!