On June 11, 2025
Cosmic catalogue

Remembering forward

Cosmic Catalogue

We are in a strange time. You might be yearning, remembering the world that was. A world you can never go back to.

 A world you can remember like it was yesterday, even though it may be many years ago. It may only be yesterday. A world that you can still see, taste, smell, and hear but can no longer touch. 

The new world is still unfolding. No one really knows exactly what that world will look like or what it will feel like once we get there. We just know it will be different.

Change is exciting and new—a chance to start afresh. Sometimes, change is also the attempt to erase something you want to avoid feeling. You reach for the new world only to find yourself in a different setting, yet nothing has really changed at all.

Change doesn’t have to be about worshiping at the altar of the new. The past doesn’t have to be about preserving the ashes of a dying world. A balance is needed. Remembering is needed. Ensoulment is needed.

Remember who you are as the pace of life and technology attempt to extract it. Find the place within your soul and tend to it like a doting mother does her infant. 

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