In Between
The Truth must dazzle gradually, Or every man be blind-- - Emily Dickinson I experienced an odd feeling today--one that I've had before, but have never really reflected on all that much at the time. Today was different. I was sitting with my oldest and youngest son in a cafe while we were waiting for our lunch to arrive, and I had the strangest sense of the passing of time and the importance of the moment. My oldest boy is getting married in September, and presumably moving on to launch a new life with his new bride. I wondered how many moments like that I would have--sitting at a table with my boys at this age, in this season of life. I decided that those moments could be counted on one hand. I felt a strange sense of the importance of that realization. It felt like the kind of wisdom that only comes when we are open and vulnerable and knowing that life is short, pre...