“Whether
we know it or not, we transmit the presence of everyone we have ever known, as
though by being in each other's presence we exchange our cells, pass on some of
our life force, and then we go on carrying that other person in our body, not
unlike springtime when certain plants in fields we walk through attach their
seeds in the form of small burrs to our socks, our pants, our caps, as if to
say, ‘Go on, take us with you, carry us to root in another place.’ This is how
we survive long after we are dead. This is why it is important who we become,
because we pass it on.”—Natalie Goldberg, Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America
(1994)Sunday, September 20, 2015
Quote of the Day (Natalie Goldberg, on ‘Everyone We Have Ever Known’)
“Whether
we know it or not, we transmit the presence of everyone we have ever known, as
though by being in each other's presence we exchange our cells, pass on some of
our life force, and then we go on carrying that other person in our body, not
unlike springtime when certain plants in fields we walk through attach their
seeds in the form of small burrs to our socks, our pants, our caps, as if to
say, ‘Go on, take us with you, carry us to root in another place.’ This is how
we survive long after we are dead. This is why it is important who we become,
because we pass it on.”—Natalie Goldberg, Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America
(1994)
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