It's strange what you remember, isn't it?

This just in from our Daddy Man:

The other day one of my high school friends found me through the Internet. The last contact I had with her was probably 40 years ago. She wrote:

Hi, Tamar, I think you must be my old school mate at Milton sixth form in 1966 and 1967. I remember you walking into the English class a few weeks after term started and the teacher saying what's your name. You said Israel. He then asked why you had arrived late in the term and where had you been. You answered Israel again. He then became very confused and I remember you laughing. It is so vivid to me. I expect you have forgotten that. It's strange what you remember, isn't it.

As I read the vignette she described many memories flooded back to me. I could see the teacher she was talking about in my mind's eye. I spent the day reflecting and remembering the old Tamar Israel I once was. It felt like a million years ago.

It's strange what you remember, isn't it?

As I was preparing to write this post I looked back a year ago, a habit I acquired ... learned from Citizen of the Month. I read through my post of December 30, 2006: So long, farewell:

Perhaps this section of the therapy conclusion chapter will include practical application to the revelations I have allowed myself to uncover from within the emotional memory of my brain. For example, what will I choose to do about taking back my birthright? How will I regain what is rightfully mine? Confidence, feeling beloved, wanted, and worthy of respect. What actions will I take to realize these understandings? How will they affect work, my marriage, relationships with family members, friends, my sexuality, growing older? What kinds of things will I do to nurture, cherish and love my ever lonely, aching, deprived inner child?

I am amazed to realize all the ways I have, in fact, practically applied those uncovered revelations this past year. I forgot that I wrote about it this time last year, but it must have remained somewhere in the back of my mind. In my next post or upcoming writings, I hope to describe those applications further.

Will you hang in there with me?

In the meantime:

Happy New Year everyone!

Comments

[Neil]

I hope 2008 brings you great joy and success.

[fp]

Happy New Year, Tamar!