An Island Summer

by Jenny Hale

“That’s calm we hear,” he said, his voice breathy like the coastal wind. “It’s what we all long for, even if we don’t know it.”

At the end of the day, all we have is the only thing we really need—love.

dementia.”

“If it were a mild case, we could prescribe a cholinesterase inhibitor which may temporarily improve his symptoms by slowing down the breakdown of acetylcholine when it travels from one cell to another.”

“Acetylcholine is a chemical we have in our brain that is highly involved in our memory, thought, and judgment.

I’m torn between two lives—the one I know I want and the one that I can’t live without.

Take any step as long as it’s the first one. And then take another one after that.