memories – From famine to feast.

Dumping old memories

…I’m a fan of being pretentious, at times, so rather than quote Disney, I decided to look up the Latin phrase. Libera. Let it go. I don’t have to hug every bad day close to my chest and take it out periodically to prove that I suffered.

getting your photo taken

“…The screen saver on my computer is set to the photograph file. When the computer is at rest, it plays a montage of all the pictures I’ve taken and uploaded, ever. What a wonderful thing that is.

I get to see pictures of my children when they were young, of my parents when they were young too. I revisit vacations and school concerts and birthday parties. I see funny moments, and serious ones, and tender ones too.

Sometimes, I just sit at the desk and watch my life roll by.
I’m not in it very much…”

we forget – a blessing and a curse

“I was sitting outside, listening to the interminable November rainfall and smash onto the rocks below the deck, when I thought that maybe I was a fraud.”

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flashbacks

“i wish i could turn off my memories,

edit or revise them so they’d play out as i intended.

my thoughts, however, remain resolute and staunch in their determination

to replay the pain as it happened.”