Long Drive Home: Remembering High School

Everywhere I drive seems to lead to a headache lately -- migraine at the end of two trips in a row -- strange. Spent the day thinking about what it is like for anyone to return to a formative place after twenty years, I decided that I genuinely had forgiven people, institutions and culture many years ago, much more fully than I thought I had, and without the power of my fear and insecurities enforcing them -- I was able to see only the good that I had accidentally forgotten.