My adult children did as all children might and went through their mother’s closet one day, happening upon the aforementioned collection of thoughts recorded in poetic form. Fortunately, for all of us, I’ve always been honest about my skeletons and demons, so no one was frightened by what was discovered

How we encounter most things is while they’re in various stages of process, whatever that happens to mean. Consider a tree during different stages of its lifespan and appearances through seasons. There are some parts of that tree that started with it at the very beginning, but many other parts that arrived and departed at different times.