Today my mother is in Arkansas to be with my grand mother who is ailing and my grand father who needs support.
Today my children are celebrating a great dance recital and a great school year with their mother and her parents.
I celebrate in my heart for my children's success. I enjoy another year of life for my father's mother. I worry that my mother's mother might not get that same opportunity.
These are the moments when the absence of another to call home is most apparent. The desire for one to wrap me in her arms and hold me until the worry stops, until the celebration and happiness can take over.
Today I miss that.
But I know that it will happen. And there will be plenty of future days that I have that embrace of the one. So today I enjoy the comfort of the many I do have.
Friends. Colleagues. Acquaintances. Good people all. The many cant always outweigh the pure attention of the one.
Today. It is enough.
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