Past into future

Past into future

life, memory, time

I love images of bringing the past, at least in its positive manifestations, into the present and future. Nicolson provides us with a couple of fine similes, and I particularly like his earth-digging, tilth-making metaphor.  But here now, maybe, there was something...
Oh you later travellers

Oh you later travellers

beauty, enchantment, life, sharing

I’m always touched by people connecting to us from the past, throwing their light into an unknown future in addressing, in a human and friendly way, people not even born.  George Eliot and Charlotte Bronte do this by addressing readers directly, and you, reading...
The past is here, now

The past is here, now

time

Ah, now I see why I always see it, it is with me, not behind me.  I am lucky enough to have experienced life in such a way that the past constitutes a trove and not a hobble. The past is never behind. It is always to the side. Source: John Berger, Pig Earth, quoted in...
Of sleep, sky and an infinite future

Of sleep, sky and an infinite future

freedom, life, sleep

From Seethaler’s subtle, sensitive and slender novel on a whole life (you can interpret the title either way).Here he describes the easy sleep of the protagonist, adaptable to many places including the open air. I liked the lack of fretful concern for the...
Pushing the boundaries

Pushing the boundaries

beauty, imagination, inspiration

Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, puts our relatively short-termist parochialism in stark contrast to that of our forebears, who despite multiple constraints of which we are free, were able to conceive and implement long term projects which they wouldn’t see...
An ageless conversation

An ageless conversation

authenticity, memory, time

This distinction between individual and collective dreams comes from the book that inspired nuannaarpoq.com. Both types can fuse into our future, making or breaking it in terms of whether it is bright, liveable or simply bleak. Arctic Dreams probes many of the issues...

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