One of the first things Patricia and I had to learn when we moved to Big Canoe was how to deal with our garbage.  We learned very quickly that if we just let it sit there, it would begin to stink up our lives.  It would invite all sorts of pests.  It would make our lives unpleasant in a variety of ways.  So, as a matter of regular discipline, we had to pack it up, load it in the car, and take it to the dump.  We had to get rid of it.

Of course, there is more than one kind of garbage.  The kind of garbage we put into our trash cans is relatively easy to discard.  It just takes some planning, some effort.  When we work at it, it is gone.  But there is another kind of garbage that is more difficult to manage. It is the garbage of the past.  A great many people have never learned how to deal …