‘Why I Write “Memory Lane”‘ (2017)

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Grandma Moses painted this… God bless her

There are, of course, things in the past, in my own life and in the world around me, that shame and horrify me when I think of them. But it’s not for those that I write “Memory Lane.”

Why I Write ‘Memory Lane’

But there is also an embarrassing wealth of good, wholesome, sane and sweet things to remember, and those are the things I choose to write about.

We have to remember them! Because they are the proof that we don’t have to be content with the dreck that passes for “the way things are” today. Proof that we can do so much better than this.

We must never, never, never settle for “the way things are.”

‘Why I Write “Memory Lane”‘ (2017)

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There’s at least one thing to be said for living in the past: you soon learn that a lot of things were better.

Why I Write ‘Memory Lane’

Was it perfect? Of course not: people are sinners. I don’t write about the bad parts. But we can see that so much was better than it is now; and seeing that, we realize we do not have to accept “the way things are” as carved in stone.

It simply doesn’t have to be the way it is. We do not have to have Drag Queen Story Hour–to name just one of a very great many things that we can do without.