a memory: hibiscus flower with rain drops

Memory and Sensation

without memory the mind and body become inert and life loses its meaningfulness. sweetness and sorrow, pain and pleasure, reason and the irrational are to be valued, although experiences can reignite terror or soothe and bring into the life of the moment a vividness that should not be cast aside. understood certainly, but never never altered. otherwise it until it becomes a similutide, smooth plastic, simulated reality and its horrors without terror. No, life is not a world disneyfied. Hurtful instead of searing flesh: which is preferable?

a long buried memory reawakened by a voice heard in a dream

forty-two years ago, 1963 to 2005. as it was retrospectively, in one person's memory; the memories of the other died with that person's demise

Traces of the Past

The Storm