The Memory of Time II
To remember is not an act of the will; it is a sudden hemorrhage of the soul. I do not “recall” my childhood, I undergo it. It is a symphony of things that have no names, a raw vibration in the air. When I think of the soccer games with my brothers, I am not thinking of a ball or a field. I am thinking of the instant, that wild, fleeting spark of being alive before the world told us what we were supposed to be. We lived in the luxury of nothingness. My toys were not objects bought in … Continue reading The Memory of Time II