History is for the living
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History is for the living
The Essential Questions: Interview Your Family to Uncover Stories and Bridge Generations
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Rashid: I’ve always wondered if this sort of compulsive documentation—these habits we have around writing down what happens at any moment in time—is actually about the fear of losing time, and our impulse to, you know, want to control it.
... See moreSarah Manguso: I felt this kind of maybe pathological anxiety that if I lost those memories, if I lost the memor
Who we are is where we come from and what we’ve seen and what we’ve said. And what we continue to say. And for so many good reasons, it’s a good idea to write it all down. While you remember, and while you can. Life is always in the particular details, the details that only you actually know.