When Theo graduates from college you will have drawn 2,843 more of your people, perfected
the watermelon
margarita for Jennifer, and found a way to avoid all ladder work.
You will have taught your grandsons about the power of words and whiskey and sitting still.
Oliver and Theo will have driven down the camp road over a thousand
times; they’ll know the smell of the pine needles in the same way they
know their own breath; they’ll have memories to match each mile it took
them to get to your house.
So much of who I am is because of my grandfather.
How he raised you shaped how you raised us, and how Kelsey will raise the boys, and so on...
Grandpa's stories are me. Even the ones I've never heard and he never spoke out loud.
I wish we didn't have to die. It seems the ocean takes it all back only a moment from when it laid us on the shore.
So we'll watch Theo and Ollie ride their first of many waves in your tide
letting them learn when to swim strong and when to let the current take them in.
