They shape our thinking, they forge our memories, they become our legacy.
The central idea here is that if our identities are forged through memory, and memory is unreliable, then who we are is essentially defined by a series of anachronisms.
Single parents say traveling with their children helps them build the relationship, too, by forging new memories and an appreciation for individual differences.
It's been my fear that the woods which shaped my identity, informed my values and forged my memories, might soon be fenced off, inaccessible to my own kids and thousands like them.
A case study from cremation in late Iron Age Britain is utilised to illustrate the application of this approach, focusing on the interpretation of cremation as a process forging social memories and concepts of the personhood in death.
2. Those little things: From land to land, little by little, there are forged personalities, memories, and our careers.
So too, our family time together is a culmination of all our past experiences, while forging new memories to savor... in the moment.
Awarding the game its title of Strategy Game of the Year, PC Gamer wrote it can be "forging player memories that'll live as long as you play and care about games".
Doing so, I told her, gave me the opportunity to allow my children to forge their own memories of their grandparents and it allowed me to practice being the bigger mensch, the evolved daughter.
By helping to forge a collective memory of the past, memorials may also help rebuild or reshape a sense of collective identity (Harjes 2005).
It was built from handmade red bricks and is renowned for its bells, which peal on Sundays at 10am before Eucharist and were forged in memory of Queen Victoria when she died in 1901.
