“Hey Rodger! Welcome back!“ It had been 7 years since Rodger graced the coffee house with his presence. Appearing fit and fiddle Rodger’s first stop upon re-entering the world beyond the cold concrete cube of a jail cell was to Network.
He just stood there dazed for a few seconds staring bug eyed at me before finally speaking, “I can’t believe you remember me, man.” Rodger (like so many of us) assumed he wasn’t worth the re-membering.
Contained within this parable is a powerful message. It was seriously significant for Rodger to be re-membered – to return to our community and find himself a member of us once again. In the remembering he was reminded of who he was – of who he is.
Memory encapsulates our heavens like in that transformative moment with Rodger, as well as our hells, such as traumatic nightmares from war or abuse cutting deep neural grooves in our subconscious.
The movie, Arrival, speaks to the dynamic and transcendent nature of memory. The film starts out with the following lines,
“Memory is a strange thing. It doesn’t work like I thought it did. We are so bound by time, by its order. But now I’m not so sure I believe in beginnings and endings. There are days that define your story beyond your life.”
I'm captivated with the beautiful evolutionary journey Dr. Louise (Amy Adams) travels as she gradually learns to see beyond the standard linear nature of time.
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