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In September my brothers and I met in Denver to celebrate our mother's birthday. One of the nicest parts of this weekend was going through a big box she shipped to Denver that contained all the ephemera she had collected for each of us as we were growing up. I don't think any of us realized she had been documenting our lives like that.

It was what you might expect – report cards, childish drawings, programs, clippings, etc. Some of it was pretty amusing.

And in my case, letters. She handed over a bunch of letters I had written, starting about 40 years ago. I didn’t know she had saved them, so it was a big surprise. It brought back a flood of memories, things I had long forgotten.

And it was a little surreal, meeting my much younger self like this. Wow, was that ME? Some things change dramatically, other things don’t change at all, it was interesting.

And enlightening.

So when I was Christmas shopping this year and saw this kit of bound letters with writing prompts – LETTERS TO MY FUTURE SELF – I immediately recognized the potential for discovery and gave it to a young family member. He says he's going to use it. I hope so. Reflection is a good thing.