My son graduated high school. I ran out of school aged children. It is definitely the end of something, but it is also the beginning of something, too.
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Archive for July, 2013
End of things, beginning of things
Posted in Essays, General Ramblings, Statements, tagged adulthood, children, college, dave doc rogers, empty nest, high school, new challenges, parenthood on 2013-07-31| 1 Comment »
Unprompted Responses
Posted in General Ramblings, tagged dave doc rogers, echo, echoes, prompted responses, unprompted reponses, words, writer on 2013-07-03| Leave a Comment »
The best way of communicating sincerity is unprompted responses. Saying I love you in response rings of echoing sentiment rather than spontaneous truth. Hence, I respond with “I love you three, … because it is more than too.”
As people, we long for that sense of value, that sense that we are important to someone, that we matter. And sometimes the simple echoes, though truly felt, are as impactful as simple echoes. “Did I matter to you just then? Or are you simply parroting with concussed air?”
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Doc Rogers writes.... 