If you’ve had occasion to ask yourself lately where you were six years ago exactly, your phone might tell you.

The blessing and curse of FB Memories is this – they come up when you least expect them – jarring, sometimes in a nostalgic, warm or regret inducing way – sometimes purely joyful, sometimes disturbing.

And for those of us capable of holding complex, contradictory emotions all at the same time, then …

On this day six years ago, I was here

The next day here

And then two days later, we held a conference to be remembered – co-hosted by LAMDA and CLA in a time-tested true tradition.

This was the 5th of what would later turn out to be 7 or 8 depending on how you counted it.

February 22, 2020 – in Toronto – in person – right before the world ended and some things fell completely apart, blew up, self-destructed or were just plain destroyed.

But it was a day I’ll always cherish anyway.

The last time I saw Some of my Most Cherished Colleagues and at the time anyway my closest Friends.

For a history of all the mental health / mental disorder law conference I have chaired, co-chaired or hosted, here is a lovely earlier blog post: