Graduation
As I held her face in my hands, kissed her forehead, and told her I was proud of her, any frustrations I bore up to that point over the last several years since she came to us at the impressionable age of eight didn’t matter so much anymore.
Thirteenth
Each new year can feel like just another number, but more often than not I’m astounded that it’s already been another year.
London
I acknowledge you’re never really finished with the job of parenting, but there are a few satisfying stages I still hope to cross, this being one of them.
Snow Stories
“The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another quite different, and if that is not enchantment then where is it to be found?”
– J. B. Priestly
Fifteen
She’s 15 today. If I’m brutally honest, there have been plenty of times I wasn’t sure we’d make it this far.
Perseverance
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
Perspective
Talking to strangers, though we’re warned of such things as children, is one of the most satisfying changes I’ve made as an adult, and my only regret with the practice is not having picked it up sooner.
Anarchy
“I never was fond of teenagers, even when I was one”
Vocation
“We do this not because it is easy. We do this because we thought it would be easy.”
20 Years
Aging sharpens perspective even as it dulls the mind.
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