In the last post, titled “Sew” I used verbs “sow” and “saw” instead of “sew”. I did that not once or twice but too many times to be considered typos. They were the fruits of the diminished prowess of my mind.

Because of aging, because of health issues, because of permanent stress, I too often feel that proper words are dissolving into the mist in my brain.

Isn’t this the same problem Robert has been having for years? Problem which makes it impossible for him to string words into sentences, or even just short phrases. He knows receptively more than thousand words, but uses only a few, one at a time. As his pronunciation is still difficult to understand, he repeats the same word quickly, many times, as if that could make up for the poor quality of the sounds he produces.

Yes, he can spell the word, he can write or print the word, but, nonetheless, it remains just a single word unattached to any companion words that would clarify its meaning by placing it in the specific context.

He is unable to retrieve those other words when he needs them..

Often, when I talk to someone, I know what meaning I want to convey., But since one or two necessary words don’t want to show up, I stumble in my communication attempts producing convoluted utterances that miss the meaning I wanted to express,