One Thing I Think I'm Doing Right
Via Dave I read Bernie DeKoven, who sounds lonely in a fundamental way: "I live in a world where it is increasingly difficult to develop healthy, supportive human relationships. Go ahead, count them. The healthy, supportive relationships in your life. The time you actually spend doing healthy, supportive things together."
Actually, the healthy, supportive relationships in my life are the one area in which I feel have realized my potential. That has been a conscious choice. I have compromised or delayed some level of success in other things to focus on my family and to participate in the overlapping communities in which I move. Living in North Carolina instead of New York or San Francisco is probably not my absolute smartest career move, for example, but it works for my family and puts me in a slower-paced, human-scale environment. Eating dinner together as a family almost every night means not doing something else, but it's important enough to us to make it work.
Two of the people I'm closest to are Elijah and Sydney. Syd should be rolling up the driveway any time now--Lisa went to beautiful South Boston, VA to pick her up after a week at my sister's house in Richmond. Tomorrow, Elijah comes home from a week at camp in the NC mountains. I have enjoyed my time alone with Lisa--another healthy and supportive relationship--but we are ready to get our kids back.
5:10:34 PM 
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