New Beginnings for a Father and Son

Labor Day has passed and traditionally it is the beginning of a new year for me, I tend to count my various wanderings from September to September. I relived my year today while cleaning up the home office and looking at brochures collected from Sydney, Tahiti, Finland, Sweden, Iceland, Nevis, St Lucia, Morocco and several places in France. I culled the pile and then decided to burn some of the hundreds of pictures to CDs to give the laptop some room for this coming year. I did it while listening to a CD of songs my son Chance burned me for my birthday awhile back.

It made me think of stopping in Albany yesterday at his new apartment and how he also is starting a new year at a SUNY Albany. I found a young man excited yet a wee bit nervous about making new beginnings. After a rough start last September and a major life change he worked hard to pull things together and it shows, I am very proud of him. I guess new beginnings are always full of that wee bit of nervous, I know I am every September. I just listened to the song The Kid With the Butterfly Net by Graham Parker several times and remembered Chance as that kid. Here is to new beginnings!