Words in Journey: Echoes from Pompeii

I believe that within all of us two types of memory reside: a “small” memory that concerns us quite intimately and draws from our tangible past—from the place where we were born, from our family, and from our personal recollections—and a “historical” memory that, unconnected to our specific worldly experience, witnesses our existence in wide and enduring ways. A historical memory, dormant within us, that we often forget we possess and that, unbeknownst to us, guides our choices and alternates and contrasts with the small one. And there are, as such, certain places that represent those memories and