Oh the mind and memories – is is very interesting how 2 people standing side by side experience the same event yet their memories are divergent enough to question whether they saw the same thing! Memory is very plastic and so the “recovery” of lost memories is a very dubious endeavor…
yep… and I’m pretty sure that somebody could shape her/his memories deliberately if he/she repeated something to him/herself enough times…
Memory is malleable and unreliable.
A story about memory: I lived for a brief time in a European country as a child. There was a cereal that I enjoyed there. that I hadn’t seen in the US. Decades after we moved back to USA, I found the cereal and bought it. It didn’t taste like my memories at all.
but it might have tasted differently because it was being produced at another plant… no?
Or because tastes change over 20 years and I don’t like all the same things I liked when I was 7. Or recipes change. But my memory was that this product was the best cereal ever, and tasting it 20 years later…it was not.
๐ quite so, JYP ๐
Very true!
๐ Robert, thanks ๐
-David
Memories will always be stay saliently our one corner of the heart ๐ทโฅ๏ธ๐
how much we want try to delete also in vain only , so we will cherish
Our memories ๐ท๐๐๐
That is beautiful ๐คฉ
Thank you and welcome ๐ โฅ๏ธ๐ท๐
Excellent, David. So true. โค๏ธโค๏ธ
๐ Jeff ๐
Your word choice is incredible. Youโve allowed memories and losing/gaining them to appear as a physical process in my mind. Really cool and interesting to reflect on!
๐ฅฐ Thanks so much, Flow ๐ฅฐ
-David
I liked yours better than the quote
and changing to suit you better.. at least from the stories I hear.
bingo.
thanks, Cindy
โค
David
So welcome David!โฃ๏ธ
I like that, David, may it be true for the stuff of poems too – decomposing first… ๐
referring to experience: am currently reading sentences claiming to be ‘haikus’ while only be factual sentences written in 3 lines… grrr ๐
๐จ Oh; the horror! ๐จ
you may laugh – not funny ๐
an assault on creation I say – go figure
๐ Barbara ๐
Ah yes, those slippery memories… I really like your line about decomposing and recomposing… we are sculptors with our memories.
Yep – sometimes consciously, sometimes not…
Memories are the ultimate tricksters. Unless events are documented, time and experience wreaks havoc on the reality of the neural path.
well, that’s well said, Nigel! spot on!
โค
David
Your wordplay is amazing! ๐
That’s very kind, Nicholas.
Thank you so much.
Yours โค
David
You’re most welcome! ๐
Memories as a well mulched vegetable garden. Last season’s zucchini is this season’s pumpkin.
๐ฅ โ ๐
magic ๐
๐
Haiku for a fertile metaphor
in memoryโs mulch
grow grinning jack-o-lanterns
on a pumpkin vine
The Skeptic's Kaddish ๐ฎ๐ฑ 
Oh the mind and memories – is is very interesting how 2 people standing side by side experience the same event yet their memories are divergent enough to question whether they saw the same thing! Memory is very plastic and so the “recovery” of lost memories is a very dubious endeavor…
yep… and I’m pretty sure that somebody could shape her/his memories deliberately if he/she repeated something to him/herself enough times…
Memory is malleable and unreliable.
A story about memory: I lived for a brief time in a European country as a child. There was a cereal that I enjoyed there. that I hadn’t seen in the US. Decades after we moved back to USA, I found the cereal and bought it. It didn’t taste like my memories at all.
but it might have tasted differently because it was being produced at another plant… no?
Or because tastes change over 20 years and I don’t like all the same things I liked when I was 7. Or recipes change. But my memory was that this product was the best cereal ever, and tasting it 20 years later…it was not.
๐ quite so, JYP ๐
Very true!
๐ Robert, thanks ๐
-David
Memories will always be stay saliently our one corner of the heart ๐ทโฅ๏ธ๐
how much we want try to delete also in vain only , so we will cherish
Our memories ๐ท๐๐๐
That is beautiful ๐คฉ
Thank you and welcome ๐ โฅ๏ธ๐ท๐
Excellent, David. So true. โค๏ธโค๏ธ
๐ Jeff ๐
Your word choice is incredible. Youโve allowed memories and losing/gaining them to appear as a physical process in my mind. Really cool and interesting to reflect on!
๐ฅฐ Thanks so much, Flow ๐ฅฐ
-David
I liked yours better than the quote
and changing to suit you better.. at least from the stories I hear.
bingo.
thanks, Cindy
โค
David
So welcome David!โฃ๏ธ
I like that, David, may it be true for the stuff of poems too – decomposing first… ๐
referring to experience: am currently reading sentences claiming to be ‘haikus’ while only be factual sentences written in 3 lines… grrr ๐
๐จ Oh; the horror! ๐จ
you may laugh – not funny ๐
an assault on creation I say – go figure
๐ Barbara ๐
Ah yes, those slippery memories… I really like your line about decomposing and recomposing… we are sculptors with our memories.
Yep – sometimes consciously, sometimes not…
Memories are the ultimate tricksters. Unless events are documented, time and experience wreaks havoc on the reality of the neural path.
well, that’s well said, Nigel! spot on!
โค
David
Your wordplay is amazing! ๐
That’s very kind, Nicholas.
Thank you so much.
Yours โค
David
You’re most welcome! ๐
Memories as a well mulched vegetable garden. Last season’s zucchini is this season’s pumpkin.
๐ฅ โ ๐
magic ๐
๐
Haiku for a fertile metaphor
in memoryโs mulch
grow grinning jack-o-lanterns
on a pumpkin vine
๐ Well penned as always, CES. ๐
-David
Too kind, David. Used a hoe. ; )