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Atticus

(15,124 posts) Fri Jan 8, 2021, 12:09 PM Jan 2021

January 6, 2021: "---not written upon the memory, but stamped there with a die---"

"In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with a die; and in the long years after, they can be called up in detail, and every emotion that was stirred by them can be lived through anew; these are the tragedies of life.”
― James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

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January 6, 2021: "---not written upon the memory, but stamped there with a die---" (Original Post) Atticus Jan 2021 OP

I was thinking that this morning. Nov.22, 9/11, and now January 6th. Biophilic Jan 2021 #1

K&R...nt Wounded Bear Jan 2021 #2

And we thought 2020 was bad. Sneederbunk Jan 2021 #3

9/11/2001, and now 1/6/2021 brush Jan 2021 #4

Biophilic

(3,691 posts)

1. I was thinking that this morning. Nov.22, 9/11, and now January 6th.

Reply to Atticus (Original post)

Fri Jan 8, 2021, 12:38 PM

Jan 2021

Each imprinted on my brain and each made specific changes in my thoughts that have never wavered. This last one is still being processed because it was so unthinkable. Now it's not just unthinkable, but actually real. That changes everything.