47 // via Samsung Instinct M800: ‘Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky
Some events in life leave you with an indelible mark, something you feel you will never wash away. Saturday was one of those days. I’ve had worse, but it’s been a long time and before I had a family.
After six or seven hours soaked in details of imponderable, unexplainable violence, I left work and met up with my wife and kids at a local playground. (Laura, God bless her, has long suffered the exigencies of my career.)
Washed in the love of my family, the joyous giggles, the playful taunts, the hugs, the kisses, the sight of my boy up there on the slide, framed against a deep blue sky, daring life, I forgot the pain just for a moment, pain I feel I have no right to.
So here’s to Francie, and Chandler, and Gavin and Fiona and the moments like these they will no longer have.
