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.
Knowing what is at the center and the reason for our concern will not necessarily alter the choices we make, since we can prefer old ways to new, and no matter how true the discovery we can dismiss or decline incorporation of it.
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