I've kept journals in the past when struggling.  I'm not exactly struggling now, but my brain is buzzing.  I am having lots of dreams and not sleeping well.  Partly this is just a process of aging and partly I have had parts of my past brought back into focus, so there's lots to contemplate.

 One of my favorite expressions is "You can't fix the past" and its companion "Give up all hope of a perfect past."  I like them because I have to remind myself of that all the time -- I cannot go back, much as I would like to go back to Ohio and prevent my Dad from losing his job and stop my family from moving away, or go back to 4th Grade and pull my 9 year old self aside and help me avoid getting picked on by other kids, or give my younger self advice on girls, if not careers and investments!

 So maybe if I write it down...


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