By Steve Moran
Over the last few months, there has been a collision of events that has caused me to spend a lot more time thinking about human connection and its importance in my life and the lives of all humans. The most significant is watching my 92-year-old stepfather’s relentless drift into the ravages of Alzheimer’s.
The one question he asks me over and over is:
“Have I heard anything from the guys?”
It’s a gut-wrenching question, not just because there are so few “guys” left, but because even the relationships he had were never particularly deep. Tom is younger. Bob is his age and slowing down, but doing good. The others are gone. And their conversations — when they happened — were about sports, the stock market, and the usual surface-level stuff men talk about to avoid talking about anything real.
What Alzheimer’s Reveals About What Matters Most …
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