A year and a day ago, a column about a Bay Area woman collecting apologies for an art exhibit of personal expression ran here. The written, anonymous regrets she collected were personal, but had a kind of universality about them, too. She imagined a room full of written apologies and the healing that might yield. She called it Apologia.
Catholics call it confession and reconciliation.
Nearly every world religion provides and encourages some form of repentance. Cultures the world over seem to need opportunities to say they're sorry. It's part of our humanity. After the piece on Apologia ran, readers asked for a chance to make their written apologies public locally. A few weeks ago, I offered to run them today.