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.
There are things we cannot do and people we cannot help. That it is so is only reasonable and sometimes so terribly true. That we wish we could and that we feel badly about the limits of our response is perhaps what reflects our character.
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