The land has a memory. Every stream and river runs with a confession of sorts, history whispered over rocks, lifted in the beaks of birds at a stream, carried out to the sea. Buffalo thunder across plains whose soil was watered with the blood of battles long since relegated to musty books on forgotten shelves. Fields once strewn with blue and gray now flower with uneasy buds. The slave master snaps the lash, and generations later, the ancestral scars remain. Under it all, the dead lie, remembering. Libba Bray
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The land has a memory. Every stream and river runs with a confession of sorts, history whispered over rocks, lifted in the beaks of birds at a stream, carried out to the sea. Buffalo thunder across plains whose soil was watered with the blood of battles long since relegated to musty books on forgotten shelves. Fields once strewn with blue and gray now flower with uneasy buds.

The slave master snaps the lash, and generations later, the ancestral scars remain.Under it all, the dead lie, remembering. The land has a memory: everything is written in its surface and in its earth and in its animals and in the life that grows within it's skeleton. The bones of an animal drop from its body when it dies and become incorporated into the soil. So too does the memory of an event sink into the soil or float away in air currents or fade with time itself.

It is said that when you die your consciousness leaves this world with you but your memory remains; even what is written in time itself cannot completely erase all evidence of your life."

Source: Lair Of Dreams

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