“…Gazing from the darkness of the panelled wall like life, the sedate face in the portrait, with the beard and ruff, looked down at them from under its verdant wreath of holly, as they looked up at it; and, clear and plain below, as if a voice had uttered them, were the words: Lord keep my Memory green”
Dickens’s message in The Haunted Man is that painful memories help us respond and grow as people.
(Matthew Davis who read and blogged on Dickens in 2012. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-1639151)
Embrace yr painful memories of 2012 and previous years: don’t repress them.
