…..from a moment to a memory…..that’s all it was…..one second it was out in front of me and highly tangible…..and in the next second it was filed away in the back of my brain, as inanimate and unchangeable as the color of my skin. The bridge between a moment and a memory is teensy indeed–almost infinitesimal–indeed no longer than the attention span of an average human being, but depending upon its import what transpires in that span can easily last a lifetime and possess all the power of the splitting of an atom…..
Fred's Soapbox 