This is a piece I wrote when I was very first using Substack. Most of you won’t have seen it so I wanted to make it free to read, once again.
What is more remarkable: our capacity to forget suffering and darkness, or our capacity to remember it? I’m frequently equally struck by both. But I do know that my memory has a special knack of editing out troubl…
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