“ It's often the material things that provide the essence of memory. ”
If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.
~ Marjorie Garber
If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.
Nostalgic memory is a sudden encounter with the thingness of the thing that has been forgotten, not the continuous desire for possessions, whether past, present, or future.
