Your sense of humour and spontaneity keep me young. Listening to you in the kitchen with your Floggin Molly voice as you fry eggs saying I have the luck of the Irish, the height of the Scottish and I get my good looks from the Italians is a pleasure. You bring a certain energy to our home. An energy I deeply appreciate. Yet all the silliness aside, you are growing and maturing so fast I can barely keep up.
You have just come back from a month in the wilderness. I recognise that the transition from life as Huck Finn to life as Tom Sawyer, has been a little trickier than you had hoped. Life in the civilised world can be tough, and many decisions about the future loom ahead.
So on this birthday I would like to share with you a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson:
What lies behind us
and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
So I offer a toast to you, a young man steeped in compassion, love and kindness within.
Love always,
Mom
1 comment:
You have one amazing boy. But I guess you already knew that. Sorry for boring you with the obvious.
Happy Birthday to Austen!
Markl
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