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The Kaechele Ranch was founded in 1899 by the grandfather of Frank's wife, Bonnie. The 13,000-acre ranch in southeast Texas is located along the San Bernard River, where the Austin, Colorado and Wharton County lines meet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/c52a07c3-3cd7-46da-8629-9ade2f88e59b/CPOY_Kaechele+Ranch_06.JPG Projects - Disappearing Breed A calf anxiously paces across a pin in a local cattle auction. Frank has noticed a change in the area's cattle ranching culture over time, with increased use of electric cattle prods and machinery, among other things. The Texas cattle industry has become about quantity, he says. He tries to make his ranch still about quality, he says. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/58063abc-131b-496a-ba51-8c88bd667423/CPOY_Kaechele+Ranch_03.JPG Projects - Disappearing Breed Frank and Ryan herd a cow into the barn in order to get vaccinated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/36918cd8-1f1a-47fb-9684-4ecce65d62dc/CPOY_Kaechele+Ranch_07.JPG Projects - Disappearing Breed The daily weather forecast is irrelevant in their decision to work. Rain. Scorching temperatures. The plume of dust left after driving cattle during the dry months. It does not matter. They often work well into the night. "I think most people in the United States take food for granted," Frank said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/09d12a52-8198-4dfc-8d05-1cfabc304e9f/CPOY_Kaechele+Ranch_04.JPG Projects - Disappearing Breed An Ankole-Watsui steer, also known as a Ankole Longhorn, restlessly stands in a pen under the main barn of the Kaechele Ranch during in the scorching summer heat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/ab0874ee-951f-4da3-848d-5847b9a57384/CPOY_Kaechele+Ranch_08.JPG Projects - Disappearing Breed "The heat is bad, but the cold is worse," Frank said. "We have to go out there in the cold and rain, pick up a little baby, clean it up and give it milk." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/9380ab13-0783-43f4-9222-e6d169c180db/CPOY_Kaechele+Ranch_09.JPG Projects - Disappearing Breed Bonnie Reznicek brings lunch to her family nearly everyday. Her grandfather founded the ranch. As a child, she remembers coming home from school to go out to the barn to do her chores. She has spent her life living and and working on the ranch, just as her son now does the same. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/660482e7-a0c1-4be2-953a-341520f7969b/CPOY_Kaechele+Ranch_12.JPG Projects - Disappearing Breed Ryan Reznicek makes notes of cattle in the holding pen. When his dad retires, Ryan will most likely assume the role of Head Rancher. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/9dbfa06c-e8c3-4d04-bee4-1bc644412588/CPOY_Kaechele+Ranch_13.JPG Projects - Disappearing Breed When I'm gone, I don't know how Ryan is going to work it [the ranch] by himself," Frank said. The worry is that cement roads will replace the seemingly endless gravel roads. The worry is that the connection with nature that comes with being stewards of the land will be replaced tract housing and massive housing developments. The worry is that his land, his life's work, and its history, will be forgotten. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1834e6a1-486a-416a-80d4-4db2aeb0546f/CPOY_Kaechele+Ranch_14.JPG Projects - Disappearing Breed "I worry about it every day, even though it's not mine," Frank said. "I would just hate to see what Bonnie's grandfather and dad, what they worked for all of their lives, turn out to be like Fulshear, Texas. I would just hate that. To me, that would be the worst thing." https://allisonrosehess.com/projects/test-of-faith monthly 0.5 2021-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/ec85f6ab-eb30-4555-b56d-b5158b424603/CPOY_Test+of+Faith_02.JPG Projects - A Test of Faith Stephanie Michelle Gallegos molds a nose out of Play-Doh while her mother, Amarilis Johanna Bayas Guevara, prepares dinner. Although Michelle cannot see and barely hear, she still does not like to be by herself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/c9c82157-0a9f-4fbd-84d2-79d64b4b4b96/CPOY_Test+of+Faith_01.JPG Projects - A Test of Faith Michelle takes a nap in the living room of her family's home in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Four years earlier, doctors misdiagnosed the brain tumor in seven-year-old Michelle’s skull as benign. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/186c6d3b-f6cb-4ab4-a11e-a1d899aa9dcd/CPOY_Test+of+Faith_03.JPG Projects - A Test of Faith Johanna helps Michelle dry off after showering in their home. Michelle usually takes multiple showers in a day because treatment often increases her body temperature, making her sweat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/98ba5aed-e885-47fc-86c4-7afa8e3bda82/CPOY_Test+of+Faith_04.JPG Projects - A Test of Faith Michelle receives required medication from her parents in the kitchen of the family's home. Every three weeks, she goes through a 15-day radiation treatment, in hopes that her tumor will reduce in size. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/0b555bba-2550-44b2-ac3b-10ea7efd20b1/CPOY_Test+of+Faith_06.JPG Projects - A Test of Faith Johanna helps Ricardo with his job's paperwork. Because of the care that her Michelle's diagnosis requires, Johanna was forced to quit her previous job. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/6fa99d0d-e8ac-42b2-a38b-91941c9c3667/CPOY_Test+of+Faith_07.JPG Projects - A Test of Faith Michelle plays with her sister, Micaela Jamileth, at their home. Before getting sick, Michelle would look out for her sister when they would play with other children in their neighborhood. Three-year-old Micaela does not understand exactly what is wrong with Michelle, but now helps her sister. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/a80acf5d-1cfa-4b76-a012-f70b04be64d2/CPOY_Test+of+Faith_08.JPG Projects - A Test of Faith Johanna communicates with Michelle at their home. Because Michelle is unable to see or hear, her family communicates with her by drawing each letter of words on her hands and shaking her fingers when responding yes or no to questions. She is still able to talk, but her family worries that she will never regain her senses back, even if the cancer subsides. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/9f3fdc5e-faba-431b-bbcc-5921eacb1b19/CPOY_Test+of+Faith_09.JPG Projects - A Test of Faith Michelle worships at the family's church with her mother. Michelle attended church that night to thank God for her tumor reducing 4 centimeters in size at her doctor's appointment the previous Saturday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/7ca5fb01-a2fa-4e5b-a61f-f92257724437/CPOY_Test+of+Faith_10.JPG Projects - A Test of Faith Johanna holds a bucket for Michelle when she became sick. She frequently becomes nauseous, a side effect of her radiation treatments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/75cb0d29-a980-43bd-89b6-6b2e60aa34f4/CPOY_Test+of+Faith_11.JPG Projects - A Test of Faith Johanna assists Michelle as they walk up the steps in the entrance of their church. The family goes to church almost every day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/7ae8bd43-7a0b-44ae-b3bb-8df2711bb45d/CPOY_Test+of+Faith_12.JPG Projects - A Test of Faith Michelle feels around for her father, far right, as she prepares to go to sleep. Michelle and her father's relationship is very strong; she oftentimes is aware when he enters a room, even without her sense of sight or sound. Michelle shares a bunk bed with her sister in the next room over, but frequently sleeps with her parents in their bed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/fe65c79b-a328-4481-aceb-42c92b5d0165/CPOY_Test+of+Faith_13.JPG Projects - A Test of Faith Johanna talks with Ricardo as he pours cereal for their daughters. Before being diagnosed, her father and mother relationship was not as strong. That was put aside when Michelle got sick. Ricardo says that while they are trying to still trying to save their daughter, their daughter has already saved them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/fa05e08f-1caf-4852-90d7-75f95154ad64/CPOY_Test+of+Faith_14.JPG Projects - A Test of Faith Michelle lies with Micaela at their home. On December 17, 2015, Michelle lost her battle with cancer. https://allisonrosehess.com/projects/a-light-in-the-dark monthly 0.5 2021-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622246838737-SXT8NZS4X2UPNK1OETN2/Hess_ALD_Short006.JPG Projects - A Light in the Dark After falling one morning, Eloise and the couple’s caretaker, Kathleen, check Ward into a local emergency room. He sits in a hospital bed, hands outstretched. Unable to assist her husband in the situation, Eloise sits in the corner of the hospital room, watching their caretaker and a doctor instead help him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622246863242-7P0NNDSL4SY5XQKL3UDR/Hess_ALD_Short007.JPG Projects - A Light in the Dark Eloise's caretaker curls her hair at least once a week. Since moving into the memory-care facility, Eloise now rarely styles her own hair or showers on her own. Still, she remembers her favorite hairstyle, the pageboy, which she had in college. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/b6e65cca-2a3c-4346-b79f-6e3de91a0304/Hess_ALD_Short001.JPG Projects - A Light in the Dark Eloise and Ward participate in the memory-care facility's various programs, including attending gym classes. The facility believes that an active body and mind is one way to avoid the side effects of Alzheimer's. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/46992451-ecf9-4262-8fcb-14fa4d175079/Hess_ALD_Short008.JPG Projects - A Light in the Dark For the memory-care facility’s annual Christmas caroling concert, Eloise played the carols on piano for the other residents to sing along to. She was able to remember all of the music notes, but just not the number of times she had played each chorus. All of her adult life, Eloise was a piano teacher. At one time, she had more than 60 students visiting her home each week. The disease affects some parts of the brain more than others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/b2b12fdc-3d0a-4cd8-a7f3-664483385901/Hess_ALD_Short013.JPG Projects - A Light in the Dark Eloise stares out the windshield of her caretaker's vehicle while on an outing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/79821865-964f-468b-802c-09f009e9c2b0/Hess_ALD_Short002.JPG Projects - A Light in the Dark Mementos of the couple's past are displayed in their room at a memory-care facility in Lincoln, Nebraska, where they now reside. They were married in 1948. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/02b496dc-1ed8-442b-b6cc-ec3c0899b8d5/Hess_ALD_Short009.JPG Projects - A Light in the Dark Ward, unaware of where to go after standing up, listens to the couple's caretaker, Kathleen, during an outing one afternoon. She believes that it is beneficial for those diagnosed with the disease to get out and see things, to keep their memory sharp and establish normality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/078906d1-5992-4bc6-969b-2996e598e273/Hess_ALD_Short014.JPG Projects - A Light in the Dark Even though they may not always remember each other, the love shared between Eloise and Ward remains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/67f5b1ed-1da9-4bdb-bd1f-6b5ed2258bfa/Hess_ALD_Short003.JPG Projects - A Light in the Dark Increasingly, there are days that Ward does not remember his wife. He has moments when he thinks that other women living in the memory-care facility are Eloise, the person who he built his life with. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/f28a4675-1bae-4b53-98cd-264074922fde/Hess_ALD_Short015.JPG Projects - A Light in the Dark Ward sits in the couple's room. When he and his wife still lived in their home, Ward would sit outside and watch the squirrels and the birds play. In April 2017, Ward passed away, leaving Eloise behind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/8da49b4d-0e69-481f-9772-b8574f0be828/Hess_ALD_Short004.JPG Projects - A Light in the Dark Even though Ward may not mentally always remember Eloise, he physically relies on her guidance, almost always holding his wife's hand to navigate through his increasingly unfamiliar world. Over time, he became quieter, his wife instead speaking for him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/9cba646d-b27d-496b-8897-3d5e7676a0e1/Hess_ALD_Short010.JPG Projects - A Light in the Dark The couple's son and his wife pick up Ward and Eloise from the memory-care facility every Saturday morning. Ward's life had been at his Seventh Day Adventist church. For years, he was a theology professor at the church's college. He never forgets about attending the weekly Sabbath. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/a278bc85-7809-4cc6-85e1-b0ace2bb0bbd/Hess_ALD_Short011.JPG Projects - A Light in the Dark Eloise and Ward's children created a guest book for those that visit the couple, to make it easier for them to remember. https://allisonrosehess.com/projects/what-remains monthly 0.5 2021-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622130674546-BY8FKTYQF0IM0A0KGPIF/Hess_Lumix_001.JPG Projects - What Remains A member of the Valley Lodge Trail Ride crosses over a highway overpass. In many ways, Fulshear is at an intersection of what was, is, and can be. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622138121697-TBTWFWL7X593KM5H7FIJ/shell+corner.jpeg Projects - What Remains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622138190581-BODA3XXW7HRNY9A8O0S8/ah_what+remains05.JPG Projects - What Remains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622139085231-HPP7WUSUHDKFMVWMACPL/What+Remains_007.JPG Projects - What Remains The walls of Dozier’s Grocery and Market, a barbecue restaurant and smokehouse opened since 1957, have withstood the transformation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622161167036-EKMAVRJ4KLGDTQ8SHQ29/Hess_Lumix_005.JPG Projects - What Remains A mural hangs above the bookshelves of my childhood elementary school, depicting the landscape of what Fulshear once was. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622161091309-IDWU1ZNQW6OSYQQ0OVEH/Hess_Lumix_004.JPG Projects - What Remains - The reality of what this town is today is much different. With each new road finished, house built, or pile of dirt removed, memories of myself and the other residents who spent their lives in Fulshear have eroded. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622142529518-PMV32GWFNY6X17BQ2ZL4/What+Remains_027.JPG Projects - What Remains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622160721641-V4WV0GJ5RD5N3X46GJNJ/Hess_Lumix_017.JPG Projects - What Remains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622161401069-DNVI1I40I80XLSBI2NOY/EAW+takeover_17.JPG Projects - What Remains - West of downtown, remnants of the past can be seen. Pecan trees stand tall. Memories of riding horses, wandering the woods, and witnessing the capability of nature is evident. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622161444254-H3RVMWO48LAD7F25LQGD/EAW+takeover_18.JPG Projects - What Remains East of downtown Fulshear, with trees that are strategically plotted, the control that nature once had over the Texas prairie is now overwhelmed with a suburban landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622161496057-XLK1OBZ3MNE3RH1G64A4/Hess_Lumix_018.JPG Projects - What Remains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622161527393-WDQWYPAERYRPLBN26FS9/733A8422.JPG Projects - What Remains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622161893449-6N4FGXVRRK171RCO57EK/Hess_Lumix_007.JPG Projects - What Remains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622162224634-A0M7YILJD8RE4F1BU7YI/Hess_Lumix_023.JPG Projects - What Remains The majority of individuals who grew up in Fulshear have chosen to move away, taking the town's history with them. Replacing them are individuals and families wanting a quiet, country lifestyle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622162444415-QVMH238OBIII9XVF8M91/Hess_Lumix_024.JPG Projects - What Remains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622162884867-8HM5E56RS825C09EAFXH/Hess_Lumix_003.JPG Projects - What Remains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622162856185-9OPR7042NYH1DYLCYKUT/733A9302.JPG Projects - What Remains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622163248025-XZMI6ZXUL97Z8R6OFIY8/_33A1434.JPG Projects - What Remains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622163364782-33CN0QT7VZTK13CKSGNZ/Hess_Lumix_021.JPG Projects - What Remains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622163401326-99XIIELML4FEA17UKKWT/Hess_Lumix_022.JPG Projects - What Remains Isabel Levy makes and espresso drink at a local cafe, as I once did the same as a teenager. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622166391277-V4F9TK597PMZWC6MMJ5G/_33A4800A.JPG Projects - What Remains Bill tells me that this day feels like fishing when things in the area were almost silent, something that is rare in most of the Fulshear today, due to a high volume of construction. He talks about loving the feeling of being alone in nature, and that he loved the times when he knew nearly everyone in Fulshear almost as much. Of course, like most who I’ve spoken with, seeing a familiar face in town rarely happens now. We discussed that Bill knew who used to own the ground that he stood on. That he and his family have lived in Fulshear for as long as anyone can remember, well over 100 years, but probably longer. That he doesn’t plan on leaving anytime soon, even as the Houston traffic and suburban houses creep closer and closer. And that he would be back out to Bessie’s Creek the next day, when the fish weren't so deep in the water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622164126556-OX6MEI64Q3JYMU97580U/Hess_Lumix_002.JPG Projects - What Remains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622165097338-PUMJL3C4TTGGKYRLTORC/Hess_Lumix_029.JPG Projects - What Remains Only very early in the morning or late at night do the streets of my childhood looks the same. It is here, at this time and in moments like these, where my memories remain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/f76e1cff-c76c-4c0f-826a-48ea2ae11d8e/What+Remains_003.JPG Projects - What Remains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622145383000-33PQ2JIOXOR9PDN4VPDU/Hess_Lumix_012.jpg Projects - What Remains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/70dc71dc-a444-4a6c-9fa5-72c6f1782380/What+Remains_031.JPG Projects - What Remains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/af433209-9c51-471b-b22c-4732dff1a833/733A3255.JPG Projects - What Remains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622145396132-HZ3DU2PRNAKSUBDW6HKM/Hess_Lumix_013.jpg Projects - What Remains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/311b9c24-4563-45a6-8017-6a85b2a5e2de/What+Remains_018.JPG Projects - What Remains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622145408140-8LRSAPY401RNVFVR5A6D/Hess_Lumix_014.jpg Projects - What Remains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/0ad48e75-7b27-4f3f-886a-37fc02110754/ah_what+remains08.JPG Projects - What Remains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622145422133-CGEMOHYLHLCOHBZXIEED/Hess_Lumix_015.jpg Projects - What Remains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/28318a01-094d-4dc4-9981-259aa1814eb7/What+Remains_015.JPG Projects - What Remains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/460765f8-68c7-4ba0-8f80-b0e07dc84790/What+Remains_035.JPG Projects - What Remains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/e837b967-187d-4389-be54-1e8cac05ef1a/What+Remains_014.JPG Projects - What Remains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/88ee45dd-4ab3-47be-9c9b-cf7819ef27b8/What+Remains_023.JPG Projects - What Remains https://allisonrosehess.com/projects/my-memories-ask-about-you monthly 0.5 2021-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622120806330-7WMD89XP6AKXIS09FB9A/ARH_05.JPG Projects - My Memories Ask About You All the Time Pat makes dinner for three individuals: her, myself, and my grandfather, forgetting that her husband had passed away. She frequently forgot about his passing. I never could tell her the truth, afraid that it would merely upset her. Instead, I would say that he was on a business trip or that he would be home later, realizing the importance of living in the reality of those who have been diagnosed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622120948084-OI27JV8UV9AXOQAIQ67P/ARH_06.JPG Projects - My Memories Ask About You All the Time My grandmother looks for her dog, Tootie, after believing that she lost her. Pat often forgets the Tootie’s name, instead referring to her simply as “dog.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622120967556-HL8K20ZXF9MUKABS3PX8/ARH_07.JPG Projects - My Memories Ask About You All the Time My father, John, stands in the sunroom of the house that he lived his entire childhood in, saying his last goodbyes before it is torn down. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622121477229-Y683VCLGCXWVK8GMOQ1I/ARH_15.JPG Projects - My Memories Ask About You All the Time With the table and decorations gone, an empty room is all that remains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622121561451-KXLO5PEOZZU2ILPM423Q/ARH_14.JPG Projects - My Memories Ask About You All the Time For almost my entire life, my family has celebrated Christmas at my grandparents’ home, with Pat doing most of the cooking and baking. An avid cook myself, I learned a lot from her as a child. This particular Christmas, my grandmother sits and watches as her family prepares the meal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622121878700-IZ8WY7HIZCYSHYYRQA9G/ARH_19.JPG Projects - My Memories Ask About You All the Time My mother measures the height of my brother and myself in my grandmother's home for the final time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/1622121911078-Z9ZPK45GTRXAZDNH3ILS/ARH_20.JPG Projects - My Memories Ask About You All the Time Moving boxes sit against the 1960s-style bamboo wallpapered halls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/57e0454f-c908-443a-bc6e-4e88e3595daa/ARH_08.JPG Projects - My Memories Ask About You All the Time Pat’s days are almost never the same. Sometimes she is happy and easy going. Other times, it is a different story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/592c20d7-b889-4cd4-bf22-6914f8ee0e93/ARH_16.JPG Projects - My Memories Ask About You All the Time With her dog at her side, my grandmother Pat ties her shoelaces in her bedroom before stepping outside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/c9684d36-f237-46c5-a878-091d8ae482a3/ARH_21.JPG Projects - My Memories Ask About You All the Time My grandmother looks back at her front porch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/c546f10d-bb01-4724-9a86-02fdedeee383/ARH_09.JPG Projects - My Memories Ask About You All the Time A picture of grandmother at 18 years old. When As a young child, I idolized my grandmother for her determination, creativity, and outspokenness. These qualities did not disappear after her Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis, but were rather overshadowed with confusion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/93502fed-d1f8-4c87-8677-0f22c6d50e1f/ARH_17.JPG Projects - My Memories Ask About You All the Time My father walks with his mother on an outing one winter afternoon. After her diagnosis, she began to develop trouble remembering his name. She often referred to her son as “that boy,” unaware of the effect that this had on him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/3786bf06-20b2-4155-8ec8-6c5bd4406e76/ARH_22.JPG Projects - My Memories Ask About You All the Time Even though he knows it is to be demolished, my father locks the front door of his childhood home for the final time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/89f4b4a8-0b0e-42c4-b440-6ed527b54a25/ARH_10.JPG Projects - My Memories Ask About You All the Time One evening, I had suggested to my grandmother that I could take her out for dinner. She misunderstood, which resulted in a state of panic seen here, as Pat searches through the pages of books at her bedside table for money to pay for the meal. I ended up making dinner for her at home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/9ad6295f-989c-4030-b2a8-b9524e5d53a3/ARH_18.JPG Projects - My Memories Ask About You All the Time Pat was an exceptional gardener most of her life. She taught me the joy that can come from a relationship with our surrounding natural world. She does her best to still keep things up in her personal garden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/3da3aa2b-de87-4d65-9bc2-a445f40cce1a/ARH_23.JPG Projects - My Memories Ask About You All the Time My grandmother waits for the other members of our family to catch up with her while on an outing one day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/53eba095-a6c5-45f3-bcd8-1436c766ee0f/ARH_11.JPG Projects - My Memories Ask About You All the Time My grandmother's room still smells of her perfume the last time I rubbed my toes between the room's retro carpet. I had always thought of the room as grandiose, only to notice how small and relatively normal it was once all of her belongings were gone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/17358703-715c-4c23-b6d6-df9c8509d897/ARH_01.JPG Projects - My Memories Ask About You All the Time My grandmother sweeps her back porch nearly every afternoon in Omaha, Nebraska. Just weeks after my grandfather’s death in 2014, she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/5d0c5741-7fbe-4527-83b7-5da3736654c5/ARH_02.JPG Projects - My Memories Ask About You All the Time My grandmother’s back porch sits empty after my she moved out the place she called home for almost 50 years. With leaves piling up outside, it would be the last time I would see the house before it was torn down. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60aeda1794a65441a5659668/dd3ff9e1-5163-4f1d-be53-2b40c213e789/ARH_03.JPG Projects - My Memories Ask About You All the Time My grandfather, Harry, poses in a photo with Pat. They were married for almost 60 years. Towards the end of his life, he routinely joked that he was the mind of their marriage and Pat was the muscles. The couple relied on each other to navigate life. 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