“I’ll talk it all to pieces if I have to tell about it. Then it’s gone, and when I try to remember what it was really like, I remember only my own story”. Snufkin (‘The Spring Tune’, Tove Jansson)
Let me give you a moment of my time –
a memory,
a story –
all that I saw, heard, felt..
how it was
(well, at least how it was for me)
turned to words, as best I can.
I’ve rolled it into a ball for you,
a glass marble –
to amuse you
or impress you
or
(here, hold it up to your eye)
a lens to see me through.
Here, take it –
roll it around in your mind,
look at it:
can you see something within?
Or is it just an empty bauble?
You think this costs me nothing.
After all –
these are just words,
and I have not lost the words
in giving them to you.
See, I still have them here.
But the memory that became the story
is just words now…
Because I gave it to you.
anotherKate 
you did ok
the agate
taw
them words
and letters
i saw
runes on ya page
which even is aging
Very nicely done! And… words written down can last for centuries!!
Dwight
They can, but few do. 🙂 What a burden we’re placing on future historians with all these words we’re writing… how will they wade through them all? Probably they’ll have AIs to do it. 😀
You may be right!
And the AIs will then take over, with no resistance, because they will have been controlling all the information we receive for years… we probably wont even notice. It’s probably already happened.
I think I’ve been watching too much X-files again.
Ha ha… Covid confinement is getting to you!! :>)
Amazing.
A story is more than the assembled words.
Love the nipsu quote too 💚
I love Snufkin (nipsu?) as a character – so perfectly self-contained and so unencumbered – disengaged and selfish in a way. Quite an aspirational figure. 😀 But Little My is my favourite. I wish I was Little My, but increasingly I’m Moominmama (with less cooking and more shouting and swearing).
Sorry, I made woopsy. Nuuskamuikkunen is Snufkin. I don’t use the English names often.
People here like to associate with Snufkin but most turn out to Myys or nipsus (a few haisulis as well)
My wife’s favorite is My, she was even called My as a child. Our daughter looks to be following the same path.
Moominmama is profound. Even with some added shouting and swearing, you have some lucky kids 😉💚
I had to look up Nipsus and Haisulis. 😀 Yes, I think there are many of them everywhere.
Watch out – Little My can be a bit dangerous. But I love the honesty of her not giving a crap attitude.
Moominmama is profound, but I’m more like her in terms of shape these days. 😦
Sorry. I only ever watch them in Finnish.
It’s been a few years but finally, she’s stopped biting me 😂
You look like a cloud that mated with a hippo?
I doubt that.
Ummm… yeah, that would be about right. 😀
So a muumin in the outback 🤣
You are really very clever with words, sound, and images.
Thanks Roger ❤