by Tim Cronley (Author)
As I begin this memoir of my remembered things, I do so knowing that the past can never be reclaimed; it can only be evoked using the symbols of words. But my words, like all words, can only represent the reality of what has been; they cannot restore it. Some of these remembered things have come squawking in from the past like a flock of raucous crows; while others, more reserved, more subtle, more reticent, have come softly forward under cover of night to trouble my sleep with their images of the past. And even though I know that the past cannot be restored, altered, or corrected by mere human words, I know as well that these remembered things are the most certain, the most enduring, and the most informing of all our earthly possessions. Taken from the Preface Of Gravity and Grace Revisited - Tim Cronley