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Happiest thirteenth birthday to my beautiful Erich. I think of the chubby, bow-legged, thunder-thigh’d, barrel-bellied toddler he was, and I can’t believe that he’s grown into this lanky, long-limbd, sinewy specimen. So many gifts he’s given me, but the greatest has been the understanding that I should move back, stand down, unhand (often brace myself!), and always gaze from a distance at all his feats. Because this boy long ago lost the notion of the value of being anchored to the ground. He lives as much of his life as he can in the airspace – physically, emotionally, intellectually, literally, and figuratively. The toddler who was always pointing up at the stars has become the boy who is always trying to sail up to them. And I’m profoundly grateful that he taught me to let him do just that, and of the ease with which I now can. He’s my favorite thing to watch defy gravity. He is thirteen years of magnificence, and I am at my happiest to just stand back and marvel at the heights he reaches.
Posted on: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 12:56:09 +0000

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