Leaving the Lake
Best of the season and Happy New Year! Here’s a fav for reposting, then back with all-new CITD posts starting Jan. 2, 2015—this blog’s fifth year.
“The past is a story I tell to forget about the present.”
Yeah, yeah, I know.
I wrote that the past is nothing I’m particularly fond of. That the beating heart of this blog lies in the questions that arise out of what I thought my reality was—even when the diaries, journals, calendars, and photographs reveal otherwise.
Maybe it’s more truthful to say I’m not a big fan of the future. If that were true I would’ve gotten through college sooner, would’ve made all the necessary concessions to raising a family of my own—AND I’d probably be way more financially responsible. Well, 20/20 hindsight is … like having no vision at all.
You see, I got four drafts into this post and hated reading it every single time.
It was because I was rationalizing, and I had strong feelings about the Family Project photos I’d discovered. Without…
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