To Be Without Ceasing To Become

What Ulysses preserves from the lotus, from Circe's drugs and the Siren's song, is not merely the past or the future. Memory really matters--for individuals, for the collectivity, for civilization--only if it binds together the imprint of the past and the project of the future, if it enables us to act without forgetting what we wanted to do, to become without ceasing to be, and to be without ceasing to become.

--Italo Calvino

fool in a pool, Bright Angel Canyon (top)

outside Serpentine Canyon looking east (middle)

Elvis sighting (below)