Up: [[Life]] Created: 2022-06-04 In the two memories I have before the age of six, I am alone. In one I am on my back in a wagon, looking up at the night sky and feeling a deep sense of connection and peacefulness. #Art ![[Earliest Memory my art.webp|400]] In the other, I am on a wooden floor in the living room in Willowdale, sunlight streaming in, and I am opening my first piece of mail, **The Cat in the Hat Dictionary**, one of my [[Favourite Books]] They are both positive feeling memories. I hadn’t noticed that before. I wonder if they say something essential about me — about my deeply introspective nature, desiring transcendence, yearning for mystery and beauty in the first instance; and my love of reading, of study, of word, even of organization (a dictionary!) in the second.