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.
Held by the past and drawn by the future we can in the present moment seem to be nowhere at all. The "somedays" and the "used to be's" can exert such a pull that now is but the tension between them.
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