“You Love Me”…the outside of the card states…and the statement captures my heart and I say out load that “Yes, I do”, smile and settle in to opening the card from my daughter. She is fast asleep in another room…it’s late and I have missed dinner and the nightly rituals of books and good nite hugs and kisses…that feels, I am certain, like a lost breathe that somehow diminishes my worth as a father. I am late because of commitments at work…tending in many ways to my surrogate family, a balance that is never quite in equilibrium to my satisfaction…a labour of love and means, and sometimes just hard labour. I open the card and laugh at seeing my given name scrawled in 5 year old penmanship…I read on and my heart breaks and mends a thousand times by the time I reach its end…and I feel all those lost breaths flood back in to me. I am made whole again by the tenderness, innocence and love of my child…who can makes sense of her world even if sometimes her father struggles with it all…and I settle down and understand through her youthful wisdom that it’s all okay.
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Lawrence Lewis
“Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.” – Dr. Seuss
About Lawrence Lewis
I do a number of things professionally...but most of all and the true purpose of what I do through "my work" is to provide for my family, be a good husband and great father, and try to make a difference as a world citizen...I guess it's not much more complicated than that 🙂