Permission to Forget

Meryl Baer
Crow’s Feet
Published in
3 min readSep 22, 2021

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We forget stuff as we age. But that is not always a bad thing…

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By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry. — Jack Dempsey

As we get older and more stuff clogs our mind, new information and experiences shove older material into the far reaches of our brain. We forget math equations learned in high school, the authors of once-favorite books, the names of

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Meryl Baer
Crow’s Feet

The shore is home. Folks visit in summer, but no one stops by in winter, so I write.