I once saw a poster: “Are your dendrites dying”?
The poster was for alcoholism
And a help line.
But, do our dendrites regenerate?
Or, are we born with a certain amount
That less and less signals go off—synapses—with age?
“Maybe we’re born with it?”
Maybe less synapses are made with age?
Does that mean less dendrites?
My Pop-Pop once asked me what to do
To keep his brain functioning,
Because he was sick of sudoku.
I told him: “Write”.
And, so, he wrote his life-story
In a few essays.
And we are all on the run
To keep our dendrites from dying.
©2025EllenFinn
Nov 14, 2025
Nov 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM UTC
I once saw a poster: “Are your dendrites dying”?
The poster was for alcoholism
And a help line.
But, do our dendrites regenerate?
Or, are we born with a certain amount
That less and less signals go off—synapses—with age?
“Maybe we’re born with it?”
Maybe less synapses are made with age?
Does that mean less dendrites?
My Pop-Pop once asked me what to do
To keep his brain functioning,
Because he was sick of sudoku.
I told him: “Write”.
And, so, he wrote his life-story
In a few essays.
And we are all on the run
To keep our dendrites from dying.
©2025EllenFinn
*I am about to answer my own queries. Wanted to “jot this down”, before I “found out the truth”.
