THIS IS THE DAY THAT THE LORD HAS MADE…

That is the first line of a hymn sung in my church. It keeps going on in my head, and I can’t seem to shake it, since I got up this morning!

Oh, by the way, this is the day that we bring #2 Son back to Purchase for his college classes. There’ll be no more subtle reminders that he is home until his Easter break. No empty cigarette wrappers that say: “Gee Dad, it’s good to be home.” There will be no butts lying on the ground in the backyard, put there so carefully to remind us that he enjoys every bit of his stay.

Of course he is just a young guy, I don’t expect Suzie Spotless to be a young man, and he is if anything: typical of other young men.

I was marveling on how well he has moved along. He is the baby, but he is also the hope for the future, mine as well as the unborn. He is a very sincere guy, (a kid in my eyes) who really wants to make the world a better place! I hope he changes his mind about some things, like wanting to work in the Middle East, but he intentions are right, and maybe we need somebody like him to step up.

When he was a little boy, about a year and a half, he would dance to the Jeopardy music theme and had all kinds of toy instruments, including a set of toy drums my father left off at the doorstep and took off, after leaving them! I though with all his toy instruments, #2 Son would become a musician when he grew up, completing an art or creative trifecta and I was happy about that. We would then have a writer, artist and musician from the same family, a great thing to find no less under one roof!

Instead of music, #2 Son turned out to be a writer, and politician, causing me to wonder where he gets it! #1 Son is a professional writer, and I like to dabble, but #2 is channeling his energy into something else, something I didn’t expect, reporting on the Middle East! He even started learning Arabic!