What does it mean to be remembered? In around 360 years will someone be reading your words only because, by chance, a single page of your notes had a passing reference to some person, or event that history decided was “noteworthy”?
What if that is history’s only memory of you? Despite what you think is worth remembering? Do you care if your thoughts are remembered but you are not? Or if they are remembered but people are not sure if it was you who said them or someone else… your son, or maybe your father?
Around the early 1600s, either Matthew Day, or Matthew Day, wrote a utilitarian commonplace (you can find it here), in a satchel-sized, gold-embossed book… Continue reading
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