Re-arranged Possibilities

 

"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 pleasure.

In what ways does the past inform the present?

Do you wish to remove the ink of the past that blends with you?

Which learning process moved beyond the should, would or could haves?

Explore incidents you need to repeat in story mode.

If you re-arrange situations, where will you reweave threads or cut strings?









Explore ways to place the past into the present to re-witness. Choose a narrator to reveal possibilities not considered.

Use your imagination to redirect the light.

Let new discoveries arrive from re-arranged possibilities.