I had something else planned for you today, but then I came across this beautiful 💔 of an Instagram post by
, whose oldest kid is preparing for college. Rebecca’s caption reminded me of something I wrote long ago. I dug through my old blog posts and found the original version of this essay from April 2019 — posted four years ago almost to the day.It was Spring of Mirabai’s sophomore year of high school. Sam was in his second semester of college. By then we were settled back into familiar routines and were used to three at the dinner table instead of four. College was still years away for Mirabai. But I sensed the enormity of what lay ahead…
I couldn’t know that in nine months the world as I knew it would disappear with the sudden loss of my Dad followed weeks later by the pandemic. Mirabai’s senior year took place on a computer in our living room. COVID defined her college departure.
The reality of all that has softened now. I’m so grateful Rebecca’s post reminded me to remember the po…
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