{"id":9396,"date":"2015-04-29T20:13:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T20:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=9396"},"modified":"2015-05-06T17:05:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T17:05:02","slug":"why-didnt-you-understand-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/29\/why-didnt-you-understand-this\/","title":{"rendered":"why didn’t you understand this?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"toni<\/a><\/p>\n

from another fresh air interview i listened to yesterday (you can listen to a lot of podcasts on a 7 hour drive) (7 to be exact) — toni morrison.<\/a> what she says about regret really resonated — i somehow have been feeling those “tiny, little messes” more acutely this year.<\/p>\n

GROSS: …Why do you think later in life you started focusing on everything you thought you perhaps did wrong?<\/p>\n

MORRISON: I guess I’m depressed. (Laughter) I don’t know. I can’t explain it. Part of it is the irritability of being 84, and part of it is being not as physically strong as I once was. And part of it is my misunderstanding, I think, of what’s going on in the world. And so writing, for me, is the big protection. But when I’m not creating or focusing on something I can imagine or invent, I think I go back over my life — I don’t recommend this by the way (laughter) — and you pick up, oh, what did you do that for<\/em>? Why didn’t you understand this — not just with children, as a parent, but with other people, with friends. So it’s a long period of — it’s not profound regret. It’s just a wiping-up of tiny, little messes that you didn’t recognize as a mess when they were going on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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