This Day

Today is the 21st birthday of William Glenn Meredith, our first-born incredible and amazing son.
As you might imagine, my day has been full of flashbacks and poignant memories complete with Joni Mitchell’s Circle Game as the soundtrack. Adding to my reflective mood is the recent conclusion of a great book—you know that feeling when you finish a really good book and it wraps itself around you for a while? This particular book is Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer. The book’s main character is an intriguing nine-year-old boy whose father died in the World Trade Center on September 11. One of my many takeaways from the novel is to acknowledge the significance of each day—not to fail to offer an embrace or an I love you.

Today, perhaps you can release your worries long enough to live this moment as the gift it is. Rather than thinking that each day may be the last (a bit dark and far too much pressure for me…I have enough trouble with priorities without that fatalistic mindset eliminating all motivation to ever do laundry again), what if we just stopped to celebrate a “woo hoo” moment for the gift of the day. We seem obsessed with processing the details of our lives with an intensity that presses out joy and builds a ridge line of misplaced priorities between us and the ones we love. So let’s get over the hump today and remember it’s all good. Let’s focus on the potential and the beauty in one another—our Will has an amazing knack for seeing people just as they are and letting them be enough. What a gift !

So today…embrace the moments that will be the years you look back upon before you know it. This too shall pass. Be still. Give thanks. Forgive. Forget. Let go. Breathe. Be Good.

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