My Son Walked Again And Revealed A Truth I Was Not Ready For

sometimes when they are leaving a place that is theirs.

Then he went, and I heard his uneven steps on the stairs, and then the outer door, and then silence.

I finished my coffee. I rinsed the cup. I stood in the kitchen for a moment in the ordinary quiet of a morning that required nothing from me except to be present in it.

That was everything. That was continue reading …