First Memory as Rube Goldberg Machine

Verbal --> Text --> Image

This is the Rube Goldberg machine of collecting and posting first memories:

One’s memory spoken verbally,

Listened to,

Stored in another’s memory,

Typed as a sentence into a spreadsheet,

Copied and pasted as a text prompt, and

Outputted as this AI generated image …

[A human told me the memory. Midjourney AI created the image.]

... crawling. There was a record player with 78’s playing on it. People were dancing. And all I could see was their legs and feet.

Even as the memory fades, something about the message survives the jumping.

We can feel its residue.