Years ago my Mom gave me a book and a framed copy of this illustration by Mary Englebreit.
The path the traveler is taking is labeled "Your Life" and the other path is labeled "No Longer An Option."
I thought the message appropriate at the time she gave it to me as I had learned some hard lessons and made positive changes in my life. I wasn't going to look, or go, back to the past. Now, many years later, I realize that I do look back - for the lessons. Mine and those I hope to glean from my ancestors because as Winston Churchill said in 1948, “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
