Mapping Your Past: Turning Memory into a Living Myth

Your past isn’t a filing cabinet. It’s a mythic landscape of thresholds, monsters, and mentors that still shape who you are becoming.

Some of us were taught that our memory is like a filing cabinet…

Dates, events, report cards, breakups, promotions, relocations—neatly tabbed and slotted into sequence. For some fastidious folks, that might be the case. Memory can be useful for keeping track of birthdays or tax records, but the reality of human memory is much more chaotic. The truth is, …