"Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?"
"Each life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly shuffled and reordered in every way conceivable."Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium, 1993
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Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? - are we not also how we are thought of by the one who separates our light from the darkness?
Who we are is many things, perhaps, and part of this is who we are in the context of a vastness of being ... whether that might involve "the one", the many, or the varied things which drift and rub off on us like forensic traces ...
a vastness of being ... ..... I like that!..... as indeed I do those 2 incredible photographs - thanks again for the images you post.
... but there's also a value in the sort of rootstock of a person with which they are born, usually called
character.
Experiences, information, books etc. all bear upon a person but sometimes a decision, a response or an
answer comes from this place which might be good, bad or difficult to understand as it's origin is
intrinsic and point of origin, yet as much a part of the whole as anything else.
"Leave off the blossom for a while and give roots a chance"
Extraordinary photos, Jacky. Having been bogged down in demands it is wonderful to come back to find such traces.
Thanks DBL - the landscape is sometimes very generous in terms of what it offers forth...
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