I had occasion today to look back at emails from 2008. It was a very weird experience.<\/p>\n
Back then I was having near daily personal and professional conversations with people I have not spoken to for many years. Just reading those emails brought me back to a another time in my life, when my priorities were very different.<\/p>\n
The most haunting email exchanges were the ones I was sharing with a close friend who has since passed away. Of course there was no way of knowing back then that tragedy was looming only a few short years away.<\/p>\n
We are who we have always been, and yet we are also constantly in motion. Conversations between our past and our current selves can be a kind of time machine — a deeply revealing one — but they are never easy.<\/p>\n
I am not sure I always have the courage it takes to hold such a conversation honestly. But I’d like to think I can rise to the occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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