Comments on: Incomplete Manifesto for Growth http://sivinkit.net/archives/1106 happenings in my head and heart this side of heaven Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:30:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: maggi http://sivinkit.net/archives/1106#comment-616 maggi Thu, 01 Jul 2004 08:50:14 +0000 http://sivinkit.net/archives/1106#comment-616 hey, sivin - R U coming anywhere near Cambridge on your trip next week? hey, sivin - R U coming anywhere near Cambridge on your trip next week?

]]> By: Ben http://sivinkit.net/archives/1106#comment-615 Ben Thu, 01 Jul 2004 08:02:51 +0000 http://sivinkit.net/archives/1106#comment-615 Whoa, some insight on memory indeed! Very interesting; I never saw memory in that sort of light before... To me, memory is like something frozen forever in the past. It never quite occured to me that the very causes the lead to the formation of memory (degrading and intercomposing), and which give it it's 'past' quality, are precisely what makes it 'new'! This 'potential for growth' that each memory has, makes it more like a seed ready for cultivation rather than the image of a tree that once was, but is now dead. How very intriguing! Whoa, some insight on memory indeed! Very interesting; I never saw memory in that sort of light before…

To me, memory is like something frozen forever in the past. It never quite occured to me that the very causes the lead to the formation of memory (degrading and intercomposing), and which give it it’s ‘past’ quality, are precisely what makes it ‘new’!

This ‘potential for growth’ that each memory has, makes it more like a seed ready for cultivation rather than the image of a tree that once was, but is now dead. How very intriguing!

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