Remember To Sing

and vice versa. Really. Who among us is not inspired by music? Especially, for most of us, "the music of our youth" (jeez, it makes me feel old just to write that phrase, but I couldn't come up with a more fitting one!). It moves us and makes us move, it lifts our spirits or calms us down ~ and the words: It's amazing how we remember all the words to songs we last heard decades ago. Well, big surprise (not), studies are finding that after singing songs from musicals for a few months, patients with moderate to severe dementia improved their scores on cognitive and drawing tests and ~ maybe more importantly ~ on a satisfaction survey: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/nov/11/alzheimers-patients-brains-boosted-sound-music-singing