Raiding Eternity is a beautiful and touching piece on life, loss, flickr, and the cloud:

I sit in my living room, thumbing through a notebook full of her poems. They’re old poems, from back when she was going through that first really awful breakup. Themes repeat. Learn to live in the moment, she writes to herself. Then its corollary: Who will remember me?

“Why did you want me to read those?” I ask her later. “Because you asked why I have a fear of commitment,” she says.

Now I look out the window at my neighbor’s two tall pines. The top of one comes to a point, then goes on for another ten scrubby feet, as if a smaller tree is growing from the crown of a larger one.

“Do you know how your ears pop at altitude?” says her poem. “Sometimes I can feel the change of pressure in my heart.”

Surprising to find writing like this on Gizmodo. It’s all part of their week-long feature on the ramifications of digital storage, Memory Forever.

Posted in Tech on Friday March 19, 2010.

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