“Of course to forget the past is to lose the sense of loss that is also memory of an absent richness and a set of clues to navigate the present by; the art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.”
A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit
“Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fatal decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal. They become the tangible landscape of memory, the places that made you, and in some way you too become them. They are what you can possess and in the end what possesses you.”
A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit
“Time past and time future
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.”
Burnt Norton, T.S. Eliot
Photos: Medina Azahara, Cordoba, Spain
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