Oh, and, yesterday marks my 5th year of blogging. I've left huge gaps in the narrative a newcomer might infer. Those omissions I store in my head, in my black books, in story, poetry, and some I let slip into the void, since holding onto all my memories leaves me burdened.
As Bertrand Russell said, "It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly." Our culture treats the past like a possession, and that preoccupation with the past distracts us from the life we encounter.