Our first long-term memories form between the age of two and four. Once we have a memory, we can begin to understand ourselves as a story that is acting out of time.*
John Higgs
You are the only you that has ever lived; you idiom is the only idiom of its kind in all of existence and if you cannot hear the sound if the genuine in you, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that someone else pulls …**
Brian McLaren
Two and a half years old,
Carrying some jam and bread to his Mummy
who had just returned home after
giving birth to a little boy.
Other memories would follow for me
in the home, at school, work, family –
My story had begun,
But to know my story is not to know me.
Through error and exploration,
I came to realise that I needed
more than a story–
What I really needed was a myth.
There is a temptation to
enlarge my story, to be
known for something,
But not so with my myth.
A myth is not demonstrative,
But it is full of rightness,
is its own reward and aims
to leave the world a better place.
John Higgs’ William Blake vs The World;
Brian McLaren’s Faith After Doubt.
THIN|SILENCE 