Not being able to comprehend a word

April 14, 2021

Today I was participating in a virtual memory café put on by a local art gallery. I have attended this café’ in person but this was my first virtual meeting. I was actually the only one who signed up for it, so it was just the facilitator and I. At first, we just chatted about how we were doing since we haven’t seen each other since the pandemic hit. Then she shared her computer screen with me. On the screen was a painting and she asked me some questions about it. At one point, she used a long word that I think that I have heard before but I didn’t understand what it meant. I let her know this and she explained what it meant. Then I was able to understand her question and respond to her. We had this café over two hours ago and right now I can’t remember what the word was or what it meant. I hope that by explaining this to the facilitator that she will think about the words that she uses when she does this memory café.

After I wrote this post, I remembered that I had the facilitator’s e-mail address. I e-mailed her and asked her if she remembered the word that she said to me that I didn’t understand. She sent me an e-mail that said the word was voyeurism. After reading the e-mail and reading this word, I have no idea if I have ever heard this word before yesterday. Now I have no memory of what this word means. I think that I only remembered the definition that she gave me long enough to understand the sentence that it was used in.