Life is infinitely more interesting when considered for the questions it raises rather than for the answers it bestows. - Maria Popova

I was learning about it along the way, often through reading, often from people and ideas marginalized by culture, erased by the collective selective memory we call history

we are animated by an intense connection to the landscapes and topographies of our formative years. An emotion known as topophilia, which I experienced while revisiting those mountain trails of my childhood, furnishes this affective-spatial memory that renders childhood as much a time as a place.

We are always harshest upon those foibles we see in others that we know bedevil our own natures - the ones that most gravely misbecome our self image - for blame is always easier than shame.