David, I'm wondering if you have ever found yourself looking back at old material and realizing that only now do you "get" what you yourself were saying back then. Do the phrases and clauses that perhaps come quickly when you're writing take years for you to understand, or do you tend to know what you want to say already, and write toward it? I ask because I find myself parsing old sentences constantly, perhaps "recalibrating" things, but also perhaps "getting it" only now.

An example of what I mean might be found through an examination of the words "find myself" in the sentence above.