Out Of The Past

[poliphilo]

I pick a volume of my paper journal off the kitchen floor- where the tide of our removals has dumped it.  There's a marker at a conversation I had with my father in October '02. He asks me if I am satisfied with my life so far and I say I am because it has been interesting. I should have thrown the question back at him, shouldn't I?   A month later he was dead.

Comments

[wyrmwwd.livejournal.com]

Wow. What a memory!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

And one I'd forgotten. These diaries are full of things I'd pushed to the back of my mind.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

I cannot imagine anyone in my family asking me such a question. Yes, it would have been interesting to ask him!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It wasn't the sort of thing that normally happened in my family either.