Peekaboo

As an entertainer in memory care communities, it is both Nurse Bob's joy and their job to seek out the triggers that bring forth social and emotional behaviors in those less able to demonstrate these feelings. Nurse Bob openly encourages mistakes, lost words, off-key singing, and shoutouts. Like any entertainer, Nurse Bob is selectively nuanced in their performance to trigger desired responses in my audience. Each performance is like an ongoing creative experiment into what pathways Nurse Bob can take to elicit an awakening in their friends; friends who often seem unaware of their surroundings. To some, at times, their actions during a performance may appear quite odd, but that is the point. While playing music in dementia communities, Nurse Bob has experienced first-hand many levels of awakenings or miracles. This book is their story.