The Tomorrow Letters

I want you to be happy. Above all things. It won't be easy. It never has been and it surely will not become so any time soon.
Don't hang yourself up on the little trivial things that never mattered to begin with. We're incredibly silly little creatures that find solace in silly little things whose matter only mattered while we held their importance....

Payton,
For your ninth birthday, I got you a telescope. We looked at the moon. Life was good.
Love,

Life is a strange little journey.
At first you're overwhelmed by every little thing. Whether its who pushed you down on the playground, who made fun of you in the hallway of your school (or who you made fun of, in that same hallway) or who didn't choose to go to a movie with you (when...

Fireflies.
That's what defined our day in the eve of its departure.
I sat and watched you two try to gather those insects for the better part of an hour. Running around, with & into each other until the dusk that settled around all of us could not discern to me who was who and who was not....