Introduction


Can each day be headlined by a word (or two) and represented by a single sentence?

Will they, in turn, weave together to form a tapestry of the year?

It may be more mundane than momentous, but it’s mine to share.

Sunday, 18 September 2016

Mixed Emotions

We moved the student into his university accommodation today with mixed emotions, not my wife sad and me happy, but both of us happy and proud to see him set off on the next stage of his life but sad and regretful that it signals an all too visible milestone in the parental continuum as eighteen years of daily care and attention (albeit declining recently in intensity) changes to an occasional intervention as and when needed (by him not us).

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