I did not fulfil that promise to delve into memory, but this is National Poetry Month and this Smithsonian Mag posting fit the bill on some many levels.
A Traveler's Prelude, Freya Stark Down and Out in Paris and London, Geroge Orwell A Journey Around my Room, Xavier de Maistre The Undressed Art, Peter Steinhart How to Look at Everything, David Finn I Seem to be Verb, Buckminster Fuller The Zen of Fish, Trevor Corson White House Nannie, Barbara Kline Living with Art, by Helen Solomon A Year of Living Biblically, AJ Jacobs Both, Douglas Crase