William Essex
  • About Us
  • About Me
  • Dear Diary
  • Books (and other stories)
  • This takes you to Medium Dot Com

Final question

12/8/2011

 
Here's a question. Start from the premise that places can contain a lingering essence of the past: ghosts, perhaps; memories that have floated loose from their owners; 'just a feeling' - everything that phrase means - without a single pinpointable source; souls that have not moved on; any number of things that impart a feel to a place. Spiritual, 'spooky' or intuitive. Consider also that places, over time, see successive generations of human habitation ('places' mostly meaning 'homes' here, though not exclusively). So much is brought, so much is left behind. All those hopes, fears touching the fabric like smoke from a hearth.
    And also present: an essence that is 'lingering' only in the sense that it's there as well as here; and 'from the past' only in the sense that it's from past, present, future and all the rest of it. Messengers who stay in place. Other souls also present. Stones, fires, chanting, the figures silhouetted against the flames; only gone if time is linear. The others.
    That's places. I want to ask about people. If a soul lives forever, but each human life is so short - this isn't the question, but answer it if you wish - what comes in, each time, from the outside, and what is left by past incarnations? I think I'm talking about a simplified karma, in that the imprint of previous lives is brought into this life. [And if so, the question might be <Who was I last time?> but is more usefully <Why am I me this time?>] But what I want to be talking about is the interaction of people and places.
    How much do we project ourselves onto our places; how much do we look at a feel, a sense, an intuition, and miss only the key detail that it's ours? Equally, how much of the spirit of a place is lingering humanity, how much our own projection, how much the fabric, and how much, as the temporary inheritors of this, today's people, could we seek to heal?
    Questions beget questions. Finally: what is the answer?
Ruthie
13/8/2011 05:21:11

The answer? You might feel called to read a book called Left in the Dark... written by tony wright, brother from penzance.. he use lulu printing by the way.. I feel our physical homes hold memories and voices within walls. Listen - we are nourished by our ancestoral threads both past present and future. x


Comments are closed.

    Dear Diary: The Archive

    April 2025
    February 2025
    January 2025
    April 2024
    July 2023
    March 2023
    May 2022
    November 2021
    October 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    November 2011
    October 2011
    September 2011
    August 2011
    July 2011



No animals were harmed in the making of this website. Other websites are available online (and off). All the content here is copyright William Essex, this year, last year, the year before that and, you guessed it, the year before that, although I don't have the time right now to hunt out that little symbol. This website uses organic ingredients and respects your privacy. Come back some time.

Promoted by T&F CLP on behalf of William Essex at PO Box 16, Jubilee Wharf, Commercial Road, Penryn TR10 8GF.​