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January 31, 2007

1.31.07

In this day in history, back in 1606, Guy Fawkes was executed for his role in the Gunpowder Plot.

Today's theme is to Remember.

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Remember what you can't remember. It's easy, existential katzenjammering aside: It begins with imagining what you've lost you haven't lost. Try it. There's an almost filmic quality to the thread that illuminates the darkness of the unremembered.

Look with your eyes and not your memory; sit not in the present casting a line backwards; bring the past forward into now and breathe such qualities of life into it.

Look. Stand. Breathe.

The Past is there for you to encounter at some point in your near Future.

Posted by: God of Biscuits at January 31, 2007 1:24 AM · Permalink

Eleven years ago almost to the day, in this very hospital, my baby girl was born. As I hold her now, still my baby girl, my ailing heart aches.

How will she remember me?

I so wanted to be a good father. Better than my father. The things he did to me. The guilt he left me with. A life time of disgust, self hatred, and a burden of despair.

The fear in her eyes tells me what I am leaving her with.

I’m leaving her, afraid. Confused. Ashamed.
I’ve been her monster.

Oh. My. God. What have I done?

Posted by: kasac at January 31, 2007 12:05 PM · Permalink

It’s not so much that I just want to be remembered, I don’t want to die at all. I like the thought of the afterlife where you just go invisible, you’re still there, and your loved ones sense you, but can’t see you.

You'd have special powers, like, Bewitched. But most important it would be easy to be selfless, to care only about the happiness of others. Otherwise it wouldn’t be any fun.

Who wants to hang out and watch their husband …er, widower start dating again? Not me, I’d kill the bastard. Oh wait, then he’d be invisible too.

Posted by: kasac at January 31, 2007 12:32 PM · Permalink