Memory ~ Recalling the Impacts
My June monthly symbolism word is Memory.
January’s monthly symbolism. –> Refine ~ A Process for Purification
February’s monthly symbolism. –> Movement ~ A Journey towards Center
March’s monthly symbolism. –> Imagine ~ Child Play for Adult Work
April’s monthly symbolism. –> Steady ~ Not Easily Shaken or Stirred
May’s monthly symbolism –> Lost ~ To Come to Be Without
Memory is delicate. Its so thin and can be torn and morphed into something else without the slightest bit of thought. What you knew and what actually was sometimes are the same and sometimes they are completely foreign to one another. If May is the month that I’m known to be silent and slip away into my own world, June becomes the month that I wallow and mourn. Perhaps I have just cause to. The anniversary of James’s death is June 24th. Maura’s birthday is June 23rd. However, I want to move through my sadness and on to something else.
I think the best way to do that is through memory. I must use my memory of the past to inform my present, to recall precious moments and to find clues that might ultimately bring me to peace.
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A few [partial] definitions of MEMORY that I came across.
1. the mental capacity of retaining and reviving…..
2….. Recalling experiences….
It’s surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. ~ Barbara Kingsolver
I’ve never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don’t understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now. ~ Sophia Loren
We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us ~David Seamands
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events. ~Albert Einstein
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. ~ Josh Billings
SLY Articles of Note
Memoirs of the Not So Forgotten – 1
They are recounting events that had profound impacts on their lives and why they are the way they are.
I’m remembering my year. Reflecting & remembering and the loss of you stands in the middle of it all.
Memoirs of the Not So Forgotten – 3
I have a memory. I don’t remember all of it, but what I remember is towards the end of the party my mother said it was time for the parade.
A Wedding. A Divorce. And the Flowergirl who ruined it all.
I can’t remember things before then. I only have blurred flashes of black and white silent stills that come to me in dreams that i can’t remember the next day. But then, I do have this one memory and if time is correct, I was three.
Can you remember remembering but not know or recall the memory?
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“The ability of certain materials to return to an original shape after deformation”.
That’s heavy.
Memory is definitely a double edged sword for me because I tend to get extremely nostalgic for what was now that I’m getting older.
But on the other hand, I get so angry about the horrible ones. And the latter memory is why I’m working on forgiveness.
I hope all is well with you, Sheena. I’m sending you lots of love and hugs : )