Short term memory

This morning, I looked at Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac and found this quote by Norman Mailer:

"Since at my age you begin to forget all too much, I would hardly remember what I had written the day before. It read, therefore, as if someone else had done it. The critic in me was delighted. I could now proceed to fix the prose. The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor."

My short term memory has never been all that good, and now I see it as the blessing that it is.  I write every morning, usually what I think is some stream of consciousness gibberish, but a day or later, with fresh eyes, I can see the value in it.

Bless all absent-minded people everywhere!