Parents Day

[image error]You'd think I would be used to it by now, the simple fact that my children have grown up.  Yet time after time the bittersweet truth hits me again, in some new and unexpected way.  A memory surfaces, vivid and fresh as this morning's sunrise--Henry at twelve, wearing a too-big Hawaiin shirt and a pair of cool sunglasses, playing Steely Dan's "Time Out of Mind" on the piano; or Jack, fourteen and all intensity and focus, as he reaches down to turn up his amp for a guitar solo on "Autumn...