Remembory

Dear Miles:

Being a grown-up is hard sometimes.  You have to make scary decisions about lots of things.  Money, children, jobs.

Sometimes you have to move away from a beautiful, beautiful life and into the darkness of uncertainty.  You have to say goodbye to friends and places that have become such a part of you that you hope and pray there will be enough of you left to continue when they're no longer there.

You have to carry the weight of family decisions and you have to think, a lot, about how to protect your kids and family from all sorts of trouble.  You have to work, even when you're sick.  And you have to do the dishes every day.

You have to spend a lot of money and you have to save a lot of money and sometimes you can't do both and you have to choose.

You'll be a grown-up someday.  And I hope that when you are, you'll have a little kid just like you who will help you remember that, even though being a grown-up is hard sometimes, life is still so, so beautiful and you can have this. much. fun. playing a simple game of 'Membory'.