by Steph Zabel
~ What is remembering?
As I’ve ponder this question over the past several days, the following thoughts have come to me…
Remembering is a return to wholeness and truth: a wholeness of self, of spirit, of place in the world. When we remember who we are, why we are here, and how we relate to the world around us, these remembrances — these truths — infuse our lives with richness and radiate outwards to all the lives around us.
I think that remembering must also paradoxically involve forgetting… For instance:
When we remember that all ...