remembering

I have been stuck on this concept of memory:
partly because I am having a much harder time, retaining words and music;
partly because I am still always struggling with that work/life balance (for example, how many people will really remember the 8,000 emails I returned);
partly because I have been revisiting memories of Opa lately, and the many things that I loved so much about him.

I love this--another way of hearing the famous Goethe quote.

“In the end,
we will conserve only what we love,
we will love only what we understand,
and we will understand
only what we are taught.”

— baba dioum via {swiss miss}