"You return to that earlier time armed with the present and no matter how dark that world was, you do not leave it unlit. You take your adult self with you.
It's not to be a reliving but a rewitnessing."
- from Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
Ondaatje wrote, "The lost sequence in life, they say, is the thing. we always search out."
He felt we need to deal with the layered grief of the world as well as its pleasure.
Do you wish to remove the ink of the past that blends with you?
Which learning process moves beyond the should. would or could haves?
Explore incidents you need to repeat in story mode.
Find a way to replace situations. Where will you reweave or cut strings?
Discover possibilities not considered before.
Where could you place the past into the present to re-witness it?
Will you keep or revise to?
Use your imagination to. find the light.
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