Scraps of the Future

Always interesting what surfaces - I don't remember when I found this on my desk, much less when I originally scribbled the list. But what was striking to me about it:

1. Not only that I took a time to list a series of writing projects, but that I thought them worth saving.
2. And then when I did find the list a second time (this is the way of my writing sometimes, to find a scrap many times), the fact that I took the time to scribble: relics of what I was wanting some time ago, driftwood, fingerprints, ephemeral.

All of which is neither here nor there, but the original paper is finally in the rubbish heap somewhere, digitized in a fit of pique or ordering madness. But always interesting for me to think about these scraps of paper I've squirreled away, as a kind of testament to dreams, ambitions, lives not yet lived.