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January 2008 
Learning to Remember
Posted on Dec 11th, 2007
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J.K.
J.K.
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for December 11, 2007:
(crossposted from azedia)
This answer may seem a little weird, but for me today's question brings back one of my earliest childhood memories. It's a point in time that's permanently ingrained in my mind, and I consider it something spiritual.
Picture me at age 3, 4, or 5. I really can't remember the exact year, but I'm standing in my back yard and looking up toward the sky at a low hanging limb that extends from an oak tree my parents had allowed to grow only a few years earlier. As I reach my right hand up to touch the leaf the concept of memory gels in my mind for the first time and observing what memory is I make a decision to remember touching the leaf forever.
The story sounds a little funny to me, but with only a few possible exceptions I don't think I've stopped remembering since that moment.
Live Oak Leaves
This answer may seem a little weird, but for me today's question brings back one of my earliest childhood memories. It's a point in time that's permanently ingrained in my mind, and I consider it something spiritual.
Picture me at age 3, 4, or 5. I really can't remember the exact year, but I'm standing in my back yard and looking up toward the sky at a low hanging limb that extends from an oak tree my parents had allowed to grow only a few years earlier. As I reach my right hand up to touch the leaf the concept of memory gels in my mind for the first time and observing what memory is I make a decision to remember touching the leaf forever.
The story sounds a little funny to me, but with only a few possible exceptions I don't think I've stopped remembering since that moment.
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Cool!!
Thanks, Tara.. I'll take that over weird any day.. ;)
but with only a few possible exceptions I don't think I've stopped remembering since that moment.
i wonder what those possible exceptions were!
I so totally get this.
I have similar decidings in me.
thanks JK
Thanks for reading that, c.c. I think I probably have enough of this stuff from my childhood to keep a psychologist busy for a week.. ;)
And Ladybear, you make me smile.. I imagine the time I forgot to remember is pretty similar to a time when you forgot to remember.. lol / Cheers!