May Peterson

“What seeing the future and memory have in common is that they take artistry. We remember things wrong all the time. The flavor of a favorite day from childhood is seasoned with the flavor of now, of what we like now, so that the precise experience of that day is never truly captured again. There is no one to tell us exactly how the past was, even though we all went through it. Memory is the imprint it left on us, the marks of infinite fingers, and we can’t call the fingers back even as we feel the places they touched for the rest of our lives. Every memory is an eternal rebuilding, a hybrid edifice of what was and what we are now.”
― May Peterson, The Calyx Charm