Because the present is so hard, we seem to be recovering a great deal of history.  Avia Kushner’s substack inspried me to dig up old photos of a close friend of my parents.  A letter from a woman I never met reminded me that her father used to visit us when I was a small child, and opened up a whole geneological history I didn’t know about.  A Russian encyclopedia article about the history of psychology and my late mother-in-law made me gather information from all kinds of relatives.  Even the dog reminded me of the history of dog breeds.