Does Memory Serve a Purpose?

Other than brooding

And nostalgic remorse

Pining for what was once

Regretting what missed

Reliving what passed

Until I descend down

Another rabbit hole

In the trunks of trees swells the history of a place, not only in the rings of time but in the seeds of regeneration branching out across the centuries. No tree stands alone, nor any man, but in its genetics carries a memory of days now reduced to dust. Its roots suck on the bones of all our ancestors.

A Remembrance of Trees

Benjamin with Kenny and Danny, circa 1939