Mastodawn

I've been thinking a lot lately about how porous our identities are: how we are shaped by every experience, person, bit of information.

How this shaping means losing parts of ourselves...or at least who we would have been without external influences.

It brought to mind a piece I wrote about the drive to retrieve, catalogue & preserve a sense of self amidst this loss of #identity:

I’m trying to capture myself. I can feel myself disintegrating. I feel my atoms dispersed. I am disappearing.

...from Emily Moran Barwick

@EmilyMoranBarwick It sounds like you understood yourself very well as a child.

@BernieDoesIt maybe almost a bit too much! People say things like “remember carefree days of our youth?” And I’m like “no. No I do not” 🙃

@EmilyMoranBarwick Oh yeah, I had a few carefree weeks in there when I was tiny.