Learning so much. When it comes to loving and caregiving for dementia I feel we all have a need to share. I know it is hard. Hang in there and learn ferociously. Your loved one could be alive and well just drowning in sensory confusion.

Hey world! Got a miracle going on. 😭 My engineering eyes are trying to find how I am being fooled. My four decades of studying human performance assures me I am not. The adoring husband knows my baby is really coming back-fast. 8 days of watching a highly customized and personalized looping music video for 20 minutes after breakfast. Drives, music, and me reciting our life stories as the ace kicker. Aphasia gone (mostly the first day). She knows who she is again, her autobiographical personality traits, and our inside jokes. We are using language every day to awaken more old memories and she is carrying them across sleep. She attends and even opens conversations again. She recognized our house as "her house" for the first time in almost four years from the outside. One example of a wildly unexpected aha moment of the dozens I have been documenting in disbelief. Example 2: two days in a row flawlessly executing a procedural set of motor skills with speed, rhythm, and precision (climbing in the "new" truck), while talking trash about her ability to do it. This is light years from the last 365 days of practiced repetition up to just a week ago it was mechanical and lacked any narration. It is also 100% Pam. I am going to post some videos explaining what I did and how you can try your own version with a confused loved one too.

PBL friends and practitioners, Back in 1993 our technology design and manufacturing startup closed a record single booking of $1 million. It took us 21 years of daily project-based learning — harmonizing real skill, teamwork, and creative solutions to genuinely hard problems — to grow that same booking to a category defining single commercial product sale of $99 million in 2014. That long journey taught me one thing above all: in innovative tech, success is almost always how well you run authentic project-based learning. I just finished Video 1 — “Love Train: Building Musical Closed Caption” We deliberately chose one of the hardest songs we could find and turned the entire production into a real (not simulated) PBL experiment: decomposing complex vocal harmonies, building "spokal" tracks for lip-sync, making tough simplification decisions under real constraints, and creating a new multisensory grammar together. Different roles. Different strengths. Shared patterns underneath. This is the emotional centerpiece of everything we’ve been building. PBL enthusiasts — I’d love your honest feedback. Does this feel like genuine project-based learning to you? Video attached.