All of us together for the first time in a long time. A relaxed day of family. All of us older and seeming to have advanced individually to our next respective developmental stage. This life isn't forever. It's just for a little while.
We had dinner in the barn. The temperature was in the upper forties. My oldest boy was quietly shivering in a sweatshirt. I gave him the blue down jacket you bought me at Eddie Bauer that one winter day we spent in Boston together. You said I needed "a proper jacket." An act of love, I thought to myself and smiled inside.
I gave that jacket to my son today. It hurt a little bit to let it go. But I let it go.
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