portal

as i sit here all alone with myself,


my children farmed out to various friends and activities,


i have decided that i am simply


a PORTAL.


a vessel that provides a way for them to enter this earth life.


a person who feeds them


and clothes them


and changes messy diapers


and then,


simply sends them on their way...


out into this big world.


no one told me it would be this hard to let them go.


but,


through me they have come to enter this wide wide world.


they are entering into their own lives with GUSTO.


i watch them circle around homebase, always anxious to step away


...again.


it is fun to watch them step away, but hard to let them go.


maybe now is a good time to think about getting a dog again?