Letting go of the past means reclaiming it. Or replacing it with something else. January 28, 2026 I crouched over smooth concrete next to the swimming pool, the hot summer sun blazing down on my back. Maybe the others were cajoling me to join them in the water, maybe not. I don’t remember. What I remember is looking at the tiny, asymmetrical holes in the smooth concrete, and noticing how they turned a darker shade of gray as they sucked in water droplets that splashed over fr