Together again, up here in the Pacific Northwest. Such an honor, to be their father.
We've been visiting colleges in the Seattle area. True to its reputation, the weather here has been rainy and cool.
It's the first time here (that they can remember) for the younger two boys. As much as the specific colleges we're touring, it's the region that is making an impression on them.
Going on campus tours present one of those quintessential human moments -- a bunch of high school juniors, feeling awkward but secretly excited, reluctantly accompanied by their parents, following along a college student walking backward and talking rapidly, pausing to ask if anyone has a question, which almost no one ever does.
The high schoolers are listening a lot more closely than their expressions reveal. They are listening for signs to their future, trying to imagine the unimaginable, being on their own, at last.
Slowly, the image forms in their minds of why they have been told for so long now to work hard in school. It's for this -- this vision being held out to them by one just a few years older.
Freedom.
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