I have always gone a little overboard with the idea that a parent must not mentally entrap their kid by way of solicitude. With that comes the risk that kid will fly far and away mentally never to return.I was willing to take such risk in the service of my cause.
When J came home for winter break, we had long conversations about all kinds of things, For several days we stayed up late into the night talking. Our relationship felt equal - I saw my baby as a young woman I was lucky to have as a friend. She told me she enjoyed our conversations. The experience was much like after having held my breath under water, coming to the surface.
crossings as in traversals, contradictions, counterpoints of the heart though often not..
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