Give Yourself Something For a Change

     I've written before about a gift that only you can give, but recent events have caused me to reflect on a different sort of gift.  One that only you can give, but this time, the recipient is yourself.  Last night my wife and I sent our contrition to our nephew's time capsule, which his fifth grade teacher is making for each student, to be opened in seven years upon the student's graduation from high school. While the letters he reads on that day from us, his siblings, and his mom and dad will no doubt be very intriguing, the letter he is writing and putting in there himself may be the most revealing and re-read letter of the bunch-- because there is no price that can be put on having a clear window into who we once were and how we viewed our life and the world in our past.