My father was a writer. He wrote all of his life, inflicting upon many of us his novels, plays, articles, essays, and self-help books. Some were marvelous; some merely well-intentioned. But of all the things he wrote, his journal is his legacy: by turns wise and bewildering, it neared 1,100 type-written pages when he died in 2010. Although perused many times, this is the first time it will be read - cover to cover, page after page.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Who Reads a Journal
He saves so much, recording his every thought, hoping it will be a legacy but unsure who will receive it, who will want the accumulated ramblings inside which may be no key at all. He realizes they may be collected for no one but himself. To no one else will it have a value. Others will have not even the time to look as they clear out where he used to live. It seemed so vital, but only as long as he was there to give it life.
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