“Memory is not about what went on in the past, it is about what is going on inside us right this moment. It is made up of the stuff of life in the process of becoming the grist of the soul.” MadeSoulMomentsPastStuffProcessMemoriesBecoming Author:Joan D. Chittister
“When the father dies, he writes, the son becomes his own father and his own son. He looks at is son and sees himself in the face of the boy. He imagines what the boy sees when he looks at him and finds himself becoming his own father. Inexplicably, he is moved by this. It is not just the sight of the boy that moves him, not even the thought of standing inside his father, but what he sees in the boy of his own vanished past. It is a nostalgia for his own life that he feels, perhaps, a memory of his own boyhood as a son to his father.” FeelsWritingLooksPastFacesMovingDiesFatherMemoriesBoysImagineSonBecomingStandingSightMovedNostalgiaBoyhood Book:The Invention of Solitude Source: The Invention of Solitude
“My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, Give and Take, was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.” NeedsGivingLostMemoriesMy OwnLossRecordsJourneyPoetBecomingLosingSugarAuntGive And TakeMemory LossLost OnesLosing Her Author:Natasha Trethewey
“I wanted to be a librarian from a very young age. Some of my earliest memories are being taken to the local library. I ended up working as a bookseller. Becoming a writer was the logical offshoot of being a reader.” AgeWantedYoungMemoriesTakenReaderBecomingLibraryLocalsLogicalYoung AgeLibrarianBooksellers Author:Michael Scott
“A lot of my clients say they don't deserve to mope about their sad little memories while children are starving in India. I say that just because your broken arm isn't as serious as someone else's gut wound, that doesn't mean your injury isn't excruciating or doesn't require attention. If you want to help the Indian children, or make the world a better place in any other way, you have to start by becoming whole yourself.” IfsWorldWayWantMeanChildrenLittlesSelfWholeHelpingMemoriesAttentionSeriousBrokenArmsBecomingDeserveIndiaWoundsIndianInjuryGutsClientsBetter PlaceStarvingBecoming Whole Book:Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live Source: Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
“Things in the margins, including humans who wander there, are often on the brink of becoming someone else, or something else, whose memory may not include the significance of old markers.” HumansMayMemoriesBecomingIncludingWanderSignificanceMarginsMarkersBecoming SomeoneBecoming Someone Else Author:Barbara Hurd
“Our growing addiction to the Internet is impairing precious human capacities such as memory, concentration, pattern recognition, meaning-making, and intimacy. We are becoming more restless, more impatient, more demanding, and more insatiable, even as we become more connected and creative. We are rapidly losing the ability to think long about any- thing, even those issues we care about. We flit, moving restlessly from one link to another.” ThinkingHumansLongCareMovingMemoriesAbilityCreativeIssuesGrowingBecomingInternetLosingCapacityAddictionPatternsConnectedRecognitionIntimacyConcentrationLinksRestlessImpatientBecoming MoreInsatiableHuman Capacity Author:Margaret J. Wheatley
“In the neighborhood around Waseda, there were all these movie theaters, so every morning I left the house and watched movies instead of going to class. The experience of encountering films then is one of my greatest memories. Before that I'd never paid any attention to directors, but there I was taking a crash course in Ozu, Kurosawa, Naruse, Truffaut, Renoir, Fellini. Because I've always been naturally a more introspective person, I was more interested in becoming a screenwriter than a director.” PersonsFilmCoursesHouseLeftMemoriesAttentionClassMorningBecomingDirectorsPaidTheaterNeighborhoodEvery MorningCrashIntrospectiveScreenwritersMovie TheaterKurosawaRenoir Author:Hirokazu Koreeda
“If I take that person and play them as a record I'm becoming not only a conductor and composer of collage, but at the same time I'm looking at a whole layer of what goes into copyright law, who owns those memories, who owns the way that that sound gets remixed and transformed and above all how much fun it is to actually just mess with other people's stuff.” PeopleIfsWayPersonsPlayWholeLawFunStuffSoundMemoriesRecordsBecomingMessComposerTransformedLayersConductorCopyrightCollagesCopyright Law Author:DJ Spooky
“When you're coming up with different ways of getting old memories to transform - you're scratching, you're doing all this kind of sampling - what ends up happening is that you're becoming a kind of writer with sound.” WayKindDifferentEndsSoundMemoriesBecomingHappeningsDifferent WaysGetting OldSamplingOld Memories Author:DJ Spooky