Bon Voyage Nellie!
How sweet it has been to have our daughter back for almost a month. She’s a freshman at George Washington U, way across the country in that other Washington. It’s a place she’s growing to love, and the place where she’s growing by leaps & bounds. A place to which she returns tomorrow. She’s not independent – it’s all fueled by parental support – but in all other respects she’s now an adult, and we’re simply the booster rockets falling back towards earth. She’ll be doing an internship with the Democratic Governors Ass’n, and a heavy load of credits, followed by summer who knows where – and all we can do is sit back and cheer & worry & be happy for her. In the words of Kahlil Gibran:
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
Bon Voyage, Nellie! We love you in ways you may someday understand, in ways we do not even understand ourselves . . .