DAY 022 – DESIGNING DANGEROUSLY

Tap into your history

Each of us carries stories, from our experiences of course, but also from our families, our faith background (or Sunday morning cartoons), our education, our friends. We become Noah’s ark basically, housed with stories great and small, preserved aboard an incredibly temporal vessel on open water. Our stories need us to convey them, to propagate them in the fertile minds and hearts of others. Some will make land and grow, embedding themselves in imaginations. Many--probably most--stay aboard, content to ride it out.

I don’t remember much of my childhood, which is an endless frustration to Beth, who can poignantly remember what she felt at particular moments. Not so for me. I have heard though that people who commit to writing down memories when they come to mind end up inventorying a larger part of their past than they expected. I may have to try that and see if there are some stories that need dusting off. What a potentially great act of generosity, to allow others to see what we have seen, to learn from our experiences.