Monday, August 13, 2012

Day 14

Sorry for the gap with no posts -- my family was getting our oldest moved into his duplex.  He starts college this week.  Transitions in life are tough -- even the inevitable ones.

Mom seems to be doing well with the chemo.  She's been getting out some to do the things she usually does.

My mind is a tornado of thoughts right now -- too many things swirling way too fast.  There was one moment during the last few days where life slowed down just a bit.  Over the weekend, we stayed with some friends of my wife -- a wonderful elderly couple who live in a beautifully remodeled farm house just south of Auburn.

Saturday night, my three youngest and I took some blankets, laid out on the lawn, and watched the Perseid meteors for an hour.  We saw at least eight of them, some fast, some slow, some that left a glowing trail, some that burned bright white, others a reddish-orange.  All different and each one beautiful in its own way.  If you blink, you can miss one.  Kind of like how it is when our kids grow up -- blink and it seems like you miss it.  Or the times with our parents once we're out on our own.

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