Welcome to my blog. You will find archived materials from 2016-2020 on this home page. New posts will be found either on the pages of Helen May Dennis or Helen May Williams.
When I was seven years old, I remember writing an essay about ‘Who am I?’ In it, I pondered whether the person I was last year was the same as the person I was now, and whether that person would be the same a year hence. I still don’t have the answer to that question.
Croeso a Mwynhewch!
Memory is selective. An individual may go mad if they have a photographic memory that erases nothing from the record.
A culture might die under the burden of excessive memorialization — and it might expire when the archives are totally destroyed.
In all things we cultural curators must make choices and critical selections.