History

And it occurs to me, that history is just a process of healing.

For there is no need to record history but in the recording of it there is a certain sense of healing.

A historian heals mankind when he records mankind's triumphs and sorrows upon the pages of a book that extends beyond the existence of the ephemeral human body. It is taking and expanding and elongating human experience beyond the containment of the confines of human mortality.

And in this process of recording, one finds a soulmate in an unexpected place. The soulmate is time and the place is solitude or moments spent in solitude, recording in black and white, the story of a collective but recording it in one voice; true authority.

"Power flows through the barrel of a gun"

"The pen is mightier than the sword"

Such proverbs are meaningless. What is meaningful is the healing and the extent of the realm of human experience beyond human mortality.