I wanted to write on the volatility of memory at age 71 — a subject of considerable interest to myself and my spouse — and searched my computer’s hard drive for previous musings on the subject.
Articles with 2008
The imperfect is our paradise
“Perhaps we are here only to say: House, Bridge, Fountain, Gate,” says the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. He continues: “But to say them…oh, to say them more intensely than the Things themselves ever dreamed of being.”