In every way, it seemed, my son’s life was returning to normal. He would call to chat from time to time, and report on his progress in school and he would talk about his plans for when he was done. He had been in touch with his cousin David, a former Marine who started his own business building oil derricks in West Texas. Continue reading
Category Archives: Life or Something Like It
The Shackles of Freedom – Chapter 6.5
I mentioned much earlier that when I was raising my children I tried to see the learning opportunity every situation presented. When you teach your children about music, about literature, about the world, about life, the learning transcends the content of the lesson. You are teaching them to learn. In my estimation it is unfortunate, though, that some lessons can only be learned as adults when they are beyond our daily influence.
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The Shackles of Freedom – Chapter 6.4
I am more thankful than words can offer for the year I had with my son in the aftermath of his incarceration. Having been deprived of family, he was trying so hard to reconnect with each of us and in that sense he was in a very real way our benefactor, or at least he was mine.
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