Passages

Daughter Laura is visiting with us from Portland OR.* She joined Ginny and me for our 38th wedding anniversary dinner at Siena, a favorite restaurant. Really, 38 years! On her agenda today, a Memorial Day family cook-out at our place, and celebration of Dad's 93rd birthday! With Mom, too, 89. Dad's health is slipping fast, but he is still unbowed and in there fighting. Mom's dementia challenges her, but whenever, wherever she can, she holds on. It is good, if a little sad, for Laura to be here at this time.

We are selling our house in EG, RI; it has been our home, then summer refuge, for 24 years. It is time. Naples FL is our home base now, has been for a few years. So Laura is also here to go through the boxed memories of her growing-up years, to select those things she will keep and treasure. It is a nostalgic time for her. But good memories, all good.

Awaiting us all are the inevitable corners that must be turned, the bows that must be tied--then, the new people and places to be embraced. Passages.


[*Son Adam and his wife Nilofer cannot be with us. They have just moved from Spokane WA to Irvine CA, and are acclimating to a new home and work responsibilities. But Adam had earlier taken what he wanted from among the things of his youth.]