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1. Comprehensive list of Alzheimer's media
1A. Name of project - Living and Loving (Alzheimer's)
1B. Video (interviews, real life occurences, recreations), Audio (phone call tape recordings, voice-over stories without video), pictures, paintings
1C. Year of project - current as of 2006
1D. Success of project - A completed film/documentary that has been created with uncompromising brilliance and is a reflection of a purpose and not the purpose itself, i.e. relationship with dad. That's on the personal level. On a universal level, it's to show that it's possible for Alzheimer's to be beautiful.
1E. Captured content - Hoboken trip (video), Thanksgiving/Dancing with the Pooch (video), stories, need to go through older pictures and videos to catalog what else we have

2. To be completed later
3. later

Relevant snippits from sessions with OC.

Guideposts:
#1- Enjoy relationship with Dad
#2- Alzheimer's disease can be beautiful.
#3- Trust my instincts and give permission not to know.
#4- I have time and the time to do this

OC's comments on structure:
"Dad and me now with intermittent fillers of stories where appropriate."

Type 1 Tasks: Aspects of project that can be completed on my own
- Cataloging captured content, writing stories
Type 2 Tasks: Aspects of project requiring external sources other than Dad
- Interviews with people who know my dad through various stages of life and relevant "experts"
Specific interviews:
- Mom, wife
- Mandi. daughter
- Uncle Paul, brother
- Tiffany, daughter-in-law
- Auntie & Uncle Al, close-in-age aunt and uncle
- Carolyn & Jimmy (high school friends, best man who also has AD)
- Former Strober King colleagues - Big Al, Sue, Bob Gates, who else?
- Pastor Mau
- Alzheimer's "experts" - Drug development person, dr. expert, dr. barbanell/therapist
Type 3 Tasks: Living and loving time with dad and capturing it