Today marks the halfway point of my intention for posting 100 days, fifty posts in on the path toward my 50. It's significant and arbitrary, and I'm drawn to post an indicator of another half-life, 25 years ago.
"Memory, history, and relics offer routes to the past best traversed in combination. Each route requires the others for the journey to be significant and credible. Relics trigger recollection, which history affirms and extends backward in time. History in isolation is barren and lifeless; relics mean only what history and memory convey... Which route we follow at any given moment is not always clear," writes David Lowenthal in The Past is a Foreign Country.
This relic shows me happy with people who are engaging thoughtfully with art and each other. That's enough for right now.
