"Once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten."
― Anita Brookner
#Bluesky #AnitaBrookner #OnceKnown #MemoryAndForgetting #TruthRemains #WisdomQuotes #HumanCondition #PhilosophyOfLife #DepthOfKnowing #BrooknerWisdom #LifeReflections #EmotionalTruth #Unknowable #Hope
Mixing my metaphors
#memoryandforgetting #familystories #neurons #rosemaryforremembrance #oaktree #dementia
When your experiment goes wrong but you go with it and it ends up expressing something you haven’t fully found words for yet.
Distorted rosemary reflection + Unryu paper + encaustic + window backlight & a hand.
#dementia #raredementia #family #care #memoryandforgetting #rosemaryforremembrance
"Oh, this is pretty good." - ROBERT KRULWICH, Memory and Forgetting, Radiolab #Radiolab #MemoryandForgetting #RobertKrulwich
A light tan box on a black background with the image of a dried zizia seedhead. Text reads: Memory & Forgetting. Online writing workshop. Four Tuesdays, 7–9 p.m. ET. October 8–29 $210 (Discounted from $260) Are we fated to rewrite the past when we write about our memories? Can the forgotten shape what is remembered? Explore the pitfalls and possibilities of memory and forgetting with M. C. Benner Dixon & Sharon Fagan McDermott, co-authors of Millions of Suns. ziziastudio.com/workshops
"She forgot little threads that hold life’s patches of meaning together." –Mark Twain (of his mother in old age)
Join me for an online workshop on Memory & Forgetting. Tuesdays, 7–9 p.m. ET, Oct. 8–29. https://buff.ly/3YABESD #WritingWorkshop #Memory #MemoryAndForgetting
