Really grateful to have read this today. It's so true--of what we consider strength, of finding a different type of grace in flexibility. Recently read about the tension too between memory and forgetting--and that holding them both, living with both in tension, is where imagination lives.
Really appreciate hearing from you, Freya! Yeah that tension between memory and forgetting is so key, I almost delved into the risks of how remembering can become nostalgia, especially a nostalgia that glorifies the past and seeks to desperately cling onto every aspect of it. There's a tension between wanting to remember and honor the ancestors, and to also not idolize them, and it's something I always struggle with, especially in Ohio!
Thank you, he was a very good man! And they really are. I was really struck by the FDR monument this time around, and how the sculptures weaved in between the years and highlighted not just him but all of the workers and the people who made that progress of the New Deal possible.
I can hear my Dad, Roland, but I can also hear you, Grandson. The seasons, they go 'round and 'round.
Oh hello Grandpa! Thank you for reading <3
Really grateful to have read this today. It's so true--of what we consider strength, of finding a different type of grace in flexibility. Recently read about the tension too between memory and forgetting--and that holding them both, living with both in tension, is where imagination lives.
Really appreciate hearing from you, Freya! Yeah that tension between memory and forgetting is so key, I almost delved into the risks of how remembering can become nostalgia, especially a nostalgia that glorifies the past and seeks to desperately cling onto every aspect of it. There's a tension between wanting to remember and honor the ancestors, and to also not idolize them, and it's something I always struggle with, especially in Ohio!
Your great grandfather sounds like he was such a wonderful character!
The war memorials in DC are just incredible to see in person.
Thank you, he was a very good man! And they really are. I was really struck by the FDR monument this time around, and how the sculptures weaved in between the years and highlighted not just him but all of the workers and the people who made that progress of the New Deal possible.