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.
No one ever gets everything, even though what he wants may be good. Each choice preclude others, and so in that sense every life is, or should be, incomplete -- though it will be as complete as it can be.
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