I have been wanting to tell a story about my youngest brother leaving for Navy basic training on my baby's website, explaining why the picture of her and her "newest" uncle mean so much to me. Yet, I keep stalling unsure of how to explain it all.
It is strange enough for me to wrap my mind around my new family, much less my greater family to read it about so fluidly on the baby web pages. This is clearly a life gardening dilemma I am unfamiliar with. Like when I had to figure out how to arrest my bittersweet vines from growing and what to do with the garden location after it was completely removed. It just takes time. Some effort, not much, but the right kind of effort to get the job done. I haven't actually replanted. I have considered replanting in that area, determining it was too much work at the time and I did replant some bulbs in little space, but they didn't take. The farthest end of the garden where the vine was invading is much neater and has room for some of my moving and dividing this year. It all just took time.
So now what do I do about putting this all out there. I consider how my young nieces are dealing with their father's new relationship and their mother's. I also consider how my girlfriend has dealt with her more recently divorced parents and her father's new relationship. There seems to be an expectation that as adults we should know what to do. We have clear vision that it is up to us how we deal with what other people do, but the messiness is in how it effects others around us. Like we can control how others feel about it all, which we know we can't but we want to protect them. What I am saying is, I have no idea what do with all this anymore than as a gardener I knew what to do about the bittersweet vine.
In that case, I researched it, and just did it. I this case, I have considered it and am convinced I need to just do it as well. With time this too will be an old story. Like the bittersweet trailers that pop up over time in different places, or when I decide to invite my biological dad to our daughters birthday party, there will be some work to do, but we have a better idea of the outcome and eventually, it will be a thing of the past.
Friday, August 29, 2008
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