Comments on: Ghosts

By: Jill Morrow

Jill Morrow — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 12:36:27 +0000

In reply to bob dinapoli. Bob, I've often wondered if our older selves might inform our younger selves if we just gave it a chance. But so much can change along the way ...

By: Jill Morrow

Jill Morrow — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 12:35:08 +0000

In reply to Kristina Riggle. I love tracing chains like that. It's the butterfly effect, right? The slightest change can have large effects elsewhere. I think one of the reasons I enjoy writing is because it gives me a chance to explore "what ifs."

By: bob dinapoli

bob dinapoli — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 21:54:28 +0000

Looking back on past selves’ thoughts is such a curious thing: you’re here, in your matured (sort-of) psychic skin, while at the same time you’re there, on the inside of the old experience your younger self went through. Who’s looking at whom, I wonder?

By: Bob DiNapoli

Bob DiNapoli — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 20:32:30 +0000

There’s so much that goes on in the wings while we’re not looking . . .

By: Kristina Riggle

Kristina Riggle — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 16:53:11 +0000

This is fascinating to think about. The people who cross our paths have so much impact (sometimes like billiard balls crashing us into a new path). I became a runner because I was inspired by a friend who runs. I met that friend at the local library, which was only “local” because of where we bought our house, and we bought our house where we did, in part, because our search spiraled out from my mom’s house, because she was babysitting our preschooler while we looked.

So because I dropped my kid off at my mom’s place to look at houses, 14 years later I ended up running a half marathon.