Commencing the Next Phase

At my eldest daughter’s high school graduation on Tuesday night, a friend who reads the blog said, “Every day I think ‘today’s the day she’ll blog about graduation’ but you haven’t yet.”

I haven’t because I’m not sure I have anything to add, not after reading this from my friend Julie Gardner, or this inspiring letter to a college-bound son that appeared on Grown and Flown. So much beautiful writing on what it feels like to approach the end of an eighteen year project that required your entire heart to finish, and yet somehow feels like it rushed by. (I wrote a little thing myself a couple of years ago that focuses on the more pragmatic side of things.)

But mostly it’s because the sheer scope of what transpired between this picture on the first day of kindergarten:

And this picture thirteen years later on her graduation night:

Defies all words for this writer.

All I have is feelings: wonder, gratitude, and hope for her future.

And, of course, a song. This one’s for you, @KhoKhoPuff. May you only ever have love to share.

(And in all your travels back and forth to the East Coast for the next four years, may you get to sit next to Scott Avett at least once.)

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