November 29, 2011

To Remember is to Understand . . .

The following passage is as true as it is elusive:

I once got a fortune cookie that said; “To remember is to understand.”  I have never forgotten it.  A good judge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer.  A good editor remembers being a writer.  A good parent remembers what it was like to be a child.

Anna Quindlen