"Each memory traces a line too subtle to erase".
Peter Barnfather
The subtlety and quiet disappearningness of this captured me this morning. I sat with it and tried to imagine it. I tired to visualise a memory trace. And I tried to understand how something can be so subtle it can't be erased.
It is still hard work for me to fully grasp what it suggests, but perhaps it is simply trying to say that memories are somehow eternal. That they leave a mark, and whilst it may be too subtle to erase, it may also took subtle to recall.
And yet somehow, is embedded in the story of our lives...
I honesty don't think I've captured the thought well enough - it feels fleeting, out of reach, and likely to disappear if I do manage to touch it. But like a memory, the words will stay with me...
Umbakumba lagoon.
Peter Barnfather
The subtlety and quiet disappearningness of this captured me this morning. I sat with it and tried to imagine it. I tired to visualise a memory trace. And I tried to understand how something can be so subtle it can't be erased.
It is still hard work for me to fully grasp what it suggests, but perhaps it is simply trying to say that memories are somehow eternal. That they leave a mark, and whilst it may be too subtle to erase, it may also took subtle to recall.
And yet somehow, is embedded in the story of our lives...
I honesty don't think I've captured the thought well enough - it feels fleeting, out of reach, and likely to disappear if I do manage to touch it. But like a memory, the words will stay with me...
Umbakumba lagoon.
beautiful thoughts & the image is perfect for the way memory shifts and slips in and out of our lives over time
ReplyDeleteThank you Mo - and in a way the image captures my sense of it so much better than my words! Go well.
DeleteF -this quote seems to grasp such a simple yet deep message - memories always there in deep quiet ways. B
ReplyDeleteThanks B - I think that's it isn't it, that somehow our experiences are embedded, deeply, softly, faintly, but there...
DeleteSuch a simple, yet powerful thought...comforting as well...to know that while memories may fade, they are still present. Thank you for sharing this one. Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteThanks J - It seems the more I think on it the little bit clearer I get - that yes even tho memories fade for us; they are still there, somewhere. Comforting as you say. Go well!
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