I Traveled Across the Country to See My Son but He Told Me to Wait Outside Like a Stranger

Not because promises are the same as habits. But because he had learned in the past twenty-four hours that I would not simply endure the distance, that I had somewhere else to go and had used it, and that the easiest thing I gave him was not my presence but my continued willingness to try, and that a person’s continued willingness to try is a thing continue reading …