Spirit Of Salt

The fall season of task overload has descended and I spent a lot of time looking at calendars yesterday.  It was only later, contemplating the teevee schedule in the doldrums of late night quiescence that I realized that, for just a little while, the eleventh of this month had become, for me, just another date.  Which I took to be a hopeful sign.  “Never” is a very, very long time to go without forgetting something.  It is indeed an exhortation that ironically suggests a mentality that is oblivious to the most important lessons of history.