So, let me start off today with a question. Who here thinks forgetting is a bad thing. Yeah, I see some hands.We've all had that one time when we forgot our partner's wedding anniversary or we forgot our friend's birthday and they scold us for it. One of my favorite examples of a forgettable offense is a story about a mom, my mom, and a bakery she absolutely despised. Uh, the owner apparently was really rude and condescending towards my mom and cuz he had a bad day.So, ever since then, that bakery has been ...

[Applause] If you lost your memories tomorrow, what parts of yourself would still remain. Who would hold your stories for you. And more importantly, who decides what is remembered.We think of memory as something personal, something internal. But memory is also connection. It's about how we make sense of ourselves.And it's how we give the people we love a mirror back to their own story. Without our memories and our stories, what's left. A timeline, a medical record, a box of pictures with names we can't quit ...