It's been some day. It started around 6:00am with another discouraging installment of a long-running conversation. The issues remained unresolved; both tensions and the stakes - very high.
Late afternoon brought a welcome "date" with the two gorgeous creatures you see above - the lights of my life - at a local coffee hangout after picking my son up from school.
Before 6:00pm, I had serious conversations about painful and permanent transitions with two very important people in my life. It's a strange experience to discover that sadness and hope can somehow coexist.
As the evening unfolded, I gave the rugrats a bath, set up lunch for later this week with one of my closest friends of the last 20 years and called another on the eve of his surgery.
The kids and I shared a new ritual I started last week I call "Circle of Love" meditation. We put on soft instrumental music, sit around a small scented candle and hold hands in a circle. Then we just chill and "feel the love". You might be surprised at how calm a three year old can be in a situation like that. I know I was. But they both seem to enjoy it as much as I do. After a few minutes (can't push that sort of thing with a pre-schooler!) we read and I tucked them both in bed.
Oh, I almost forgot the defining moment of the day. It happended somewhere between the first part of the day and the evening activities. My daughter came up behind me, wrapped her arms around me and sweetly declared: "I love you Daddy."And then this priceless line:
"Happy 'I Love You Day', Daddy!"
Indeed.
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