Our son is getting married next year, he’s 32. We also have a married daughter, and a grandson and a granddaughter. Our kids have never been estranged and in fact, our daughter grows closer every year. But our son…as his mother, I have of course always seen and supported the necessity of him finding his own path and literally thank God constantly for the blessing of children, and for their successful lives. But I never anticipated how different it is with a son, and have been a little melancholy lately, realizing that he’s never going to be close the way that we used to be.
My love for him is being proved in the letting go.

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Tiny little ants found the box covering my sprinkler system’s pressure switch the ideal place to store and nurture their eggs. Ant eggs are not good conductors of electricity. Nearly lost my entire lawn.

I don’t know if this is comforting or not, but I think it usually takes a long time, but the sharpness of the loss does fade although there is always some grief.

Just finally listened to the song. Very bitter sweet for me. Things are still very raw.