Saved by Keely Adler
What Good Are Our Memories If We Never Share Them?
Memory is meant to be given. It isn’t held well alone. It is meant to be held in a collective and across generations. Memories that remain exclusive to a particular individual or even community are at risk of becoming false.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
In my current less-young age, I’ve learned that almost more than anything, stories hold us together. Stories teach us what is important about life, why we are here and how it is best to behave, and that inside us we have access to treasure, in memories and observations, in imagination.
Anne Lamott • Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
Even those of us who are not prone to forgetting need this. Sometimes, it is only in the hands of another that a memory can be fully encountered.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“if we cannot tell a story about what happened to us, nothing has happened to us.” ― James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games.
I'm realizing how terrible one's memory truly is. Without documenting life, it's painfully easy to forget so many important moments. This is important because we so often lean on other's memories/stories - autobiographie... See more