Silence and Forgetting

I’m going to a Memory Group meeting this Thursday – to meet a group of people and their partners who are starting to live and cope (or not) with dementia.  This is the second time I’m to meet them following a very successful first encounter when we shared our thoughts and memories about poetry.  I don’t want to approach it as though it’s a workshop as the purpose is to help people communicate and feel supported and connected with others.  And though memory is such an important part of human relationships, forgetting is a slightly different process to losing memory.  I have been thinking a great deal about this – and silence lately as I was sent the book On Silence by Sara Maitland.

Advertisement

---