Let me just be in the ground. Let me just be in the ground and go to sleep. - Joan Didion

I always had trouble distinguishing between what happened and what merely might have happened, but I remain unconvinced that the distinction, for my purposes, matters

Above all, she is the girl who 'feels' things, who has hung on to the freshness and pain of adolescence, the girl ever wounded, ever young. Now, at an age when the wounds begin to heal whether one wants them to or not, Joan Baez rarely leaves the Carmel Valley.

Time passes. Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.