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.
Are we good people who are sometimes wrong, or bad people who are on occasion correct? What is the defining characteristic? What establishes the expectation of who we will be? Which is rule and what is exception to it?
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