Saturday, August 6, 2016

Empty Nest


For as long as I can remember, we’ve always watched the Olympics, with me usually in the kitchen providing commentary.  Has there ever been an opening ceremony that didn’t look like a bad Busby Berkeley production?

Only yesterday the audience was reduced by one, with Clare away for the weekend in Michigan with her boyfriend Chris.  I wonder if this is how my father felt with his two daughters, or my father-in-law with his two girls.  You get used to the audience, grow to depend on them, even, and then they’re gone.  So, what goes around for the young man who steals away a daughter comes around for the father who loses one decades later.

 Rowing, anyone?

 

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