Reflections on Advancement

In the last months, both of my children graduated, one from college and the other from high school. Excitement, pride, and poignancy blended in these bittersweet moments. Time crept up on me. Only looking back did I see the claim of its ponderous heft. Yet, these are the goals for which we labored as parents, to see them grow and progress well in the world. Is it a particular sting of our fallen world that we must buy such achievements at the cost of loss and separation? Maybe part of the transc...