Confession: I am a Men in Black fan. I love both of the movies and would be hard-pressed to say which I like better. The second one does hold a special place in my heart though, as it has given me a practice that affects my life in a fairly significant way.
In the movie, Agent J, anticipating the erasing of memory and the eventually needing of that memory afterwards, very cleverly left “notes to himself in the future.” For some reason, that phrase stuck in my head…since 2002. Until last year, it was just there, in my head, a cute idea. Then, last year, I realized that there were things I would want to remember in the future. I realized that I have a calendar on my email program