Seeking a creative outlet to help process my feelings about my mother’s Alzheimer’s, I was inspired by and combined elements of three platforms that allow people to reflect on specific topics:

• The Race Card Project, Michele Norris’s collection of people’s thoughts on race, expressed in just six words

• The New York Times’ 100-word Tiny Love Stories, and

• Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s podcast, Wiser Than Me, which elicits older women’s advice on aging

Here, the lens is focused on Alzheimer’s to allow anyone engaged with this disease to process and easily share their experience without judgment. As with race, love, and aging, our individual relationships to this disease are simultaneously intensely personal and reassuringly universal.

I’ve shared my word to start the story. Please help me tell the rest of it.