I realized that it was someone’s birthday today – someone from the past. Not the distant past, but someone who was important enough that I thought I would never forget. I happened to remember, sort of in casual passing.

Letting go and moving on and all that … that takes time, is a process, and sometimes it is rough. It is satisfying, though, when you reach a stage when it is just so long gone and out of mind that it surprises you that it was ever a part of your life.