Family COMMUNion

grey and callous no one cares rage and malice anger flares let them wonder be an adult silently suffer it's all your fault See my front I brave a smile what I want is not worthwhile hide the pain and you're the salt embrace the rain it's all my fault I can fly but I can't walk they look to the sky they marvel and talk I try and I try it's all for nought I can't stand. It's all my fault. They make it look easy They don't understand I've yet to EVER find a safe place to land And if I did….I couldn't stand alone I haven't the strength nor the faculties own  The time that  I landed and met with assault permission not granted it was all….my…..fault Birds of a feather? I've never met one braving the weather I wait for the sun circling slowly they stare up with wonder I swoop and I vault down, up, and under I cannot, I will not, I dare not halt my feet just don't work and it's all…m...

My daughter, my only girl, turns sixteen today.  Since she was 3 months old, I've kept a journal for her of my thoughts regarding her and my love for her.  In honor of this milestone and for the few that keep tabs on her "growing up." I am posting today's entry to the journal below: Here it is!  Your 16th birthday is here! I imagined this day when I started this book. I also imagined there'd be much more writing in here than there is.  Life never goes as we expect or plan for. That will be the first hard lesson you learn as an adult.  It is hard, but it is necessary. At sixteen you have inherited your mother's love of relationship. I watch you struggle to understand why others don't value it as you do. I wish I could help but I am in the same struggle right along with you. People are afraid. I know this.  Their fear threatens to overtake me as well..and often it does. I hope you shake off fear in your adult life.  Fear is the absence of faith and...