Birthday
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Today I celebrate my fiftieth birthday. For those of you who have beat me to this milestone, you know that it really doesn’t feel any different from day 364 of your 49th year (or even your 48th year, for that matter). But there is something about turning half-a-century that gives pause. While I do not…
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Autumn has always been my favorite season. Perhaps my birthday coming shortly after the autumnal equinox has biased me in favor of this rich time of harvest and change, but as I meditated on turning forty-six and my desire to live to be one hundred years old, the following sonnet emerged. I struggled to capture…
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My daughter has turned eighteen. As John Lennon once wrote, “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans” (“Beautiful Boy”). He understood, as a father, how quickly time escapes us. For all of us who have become parents, this truth is painfully real. It drives me more into the present, trying…
