Personalia ...

Today’s word is “personalia” ... biographical data, personal reminiscences, or the like. (Dictionary.com)

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Imagine a scrapbook,
     if you amassed all of your personalia!
There would be baby pictures galore ...
     even if you were the third or fifth child.
Pictures of you when we were 2 and 3 and 4 
     with video and sound effects. And
           everything you remember.
Learning to walk and talk and skate and
     ride a bike and do math and sing and dance!
Perhaps every drawing you ever made. Every paper maché
     sculpture. And every sight and sound and memory.
And through your life, your friends, your faith,
     your work, your love and passions.
How long would it take to look at everything?
     What would you think about each event?
Would it be satisfying? Painful? 
     Perhaps one moment at a time is
          all we can handle ... as much as we try
               to live the past and future all at
                     once.

Anne Selleck
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