The sun sets on another day…
Cloudy it was, and dark too fast, but the sky lit up for an instant and I know it was wonderful high above, wonderful and more than a little amazing!
I was reading tonight and came across this card from my grandmother. It was written to me right before my first daughter was born. That would have been almost 40 years ago.
You have to understand that one of the only places I could call home was my grandmother’s house. Everywhere else was transient and before high school I was in a different home every year. I don’t know if it was good or bad and will never be able to truly weigh that the way it needs to be weighed, but I do know there were a lot of difficult things in my life and my grandmother and grandfather were a key pivot point in every day that I went through.
Inside of this card that means a lot to me as a hand drawn picture of whales, I found myself called Out by my grandmother and told that she knew I would make a great father. I wrestled with that just a little bit. There are places where I think I have done very well, and there are places that I feel that I have been lacking. In the end only time will tell but I hope that someday I feel as though I made a difference in my daughter’s life, my children’s lives, and my grandchildren’s lives now.
Perhaps, just perhaps, this goal is to make my grandparents proud.
So as the sun sets on another day, It was a fun trip down memory lane. I laughed a little, I cried a little, and in the end I hope I made a difference. I hope you made a difference in your children’s lives as well or in other’s lives as you can, no matter what.
Sleep sweet, love life, and whales are great…