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Magic moments  I was thinking about moments in life as my friend talked about his fear of losing his memory due to his Vascular Dementia. I told him that when my wife suffered her brain aneurysm and she was recovering she lived in the moment. She had no memory. Over time her memory, first long term and then short term came back. But for a long time, she lived in moments.

Live is full of moments, some not magic but others are magic like those in the song written by  Burt Bacharach / Hal David and sung by Perry Como.

Magic moments, when two hearts are carin'
Magic moments, memories we've been sharing

I'll never forget the moment we kissed the night of the hayride
The way that we hugged to try to keep warm while takin' a sleigh ride

Magic moments, memories we've been sharin'
Magic moments, when two hearts are carin'

Time can't erase the memory of
These magic moments filled with love

The telephone call that tied up the line for hours and hours
The Saturday dance I got up the nerve to send you some flowers

Magic moments, memories we've been sharin'
Magic moments, when two hearts are carin'
Time can't erase the memory of
These magic moments filled with love

The time that the floor fell out of my car when I put the clutch down
(The penny arcade, the games that we played, the fun and the prizes)
The Halloween hop when everyone came in funny disguises

Magic moments filled with love

We live in moments, the past is a memory and the future is a dream. Moments are all we have as we move through life. 

A moment is a minute portion or point of time an instant, for example, a moment of dreadful suspense.  Or a moment may be a comparatively brief period of time such as a moment of solitude

We can define moments as what we are currently doing at the present time. At the moment I am at work on my 3,375 blog post.  We can hope that our moment is a time of excellence or conspicuousness. "there's … some deliciously funny moments, but most of it is numbingly subtle. "Jess Cagle, A moment may also be  a stage in historical or logical development such as "a document of one moment in the history of thought and sensibility in the nineteenth century" T. S. Eliot

Our life is filled with our moments, we live in our moment, we dream of past moments, we anticipate future moments. All we have is the moment, make the best of each moment.

Moments build memories and we grow fearful when we feel our moments running out. We want and we need our past moments to help us remember who we are and who we were. That is why Alzheimer's and dementia are such cruel diseases, they rob us of our moments, and rob our families and friends the joy of remembering those moments with us.


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