What's your favorite part about caregiving?

I think my favorite part is the rare part - the reflection.

It's the moments when food or a song or something triggers a memory for my parent or grandparent.

I am usually so immersed in the now. There's a lot to do to take care of someone and your family and your job and maybe even a pet.

I love those moments when I take the time to ask or it just spills out and I get to connect to the girl or the wife or the father that my parent or grandparent was, like when my grandmother tells me her nickname (corn silk) when she was a girl growing up on a Native American reservation.