Maine...


Yesterday.

A text from The Original — our first born.
She usually sends me something strange from TikTok.
Something that will have me shaking my head…or scratching it.
I’m distracted at the time so it falls off my radar.
Later, I’m headed to pick up pizza.
I remember.
I start the car.

‘You’d like this song’
‘It’s my favorite of his’

I click it.
And head down the road.
And not long after, tears follow.
The song takes me.
She knew it would.

I reach the parking lot.
I’m wiping the tears from my face.
Two scenes come to mind.
I tell her.

‘In the movie of my life…I hear that one playing when you’re spreading my ashes one day.’

‘Perhaps one day we’ll dance to it.’

She’s texting now.
The dot dot dot…
I wait before I go inside.

‘that’s going to make me cry’

Me too kiddo.
Me too.

These days there’s so much going on.
She’s got a boyfriend.
Her schedule’s packed.
Days can be combative.

But today I’m touched.
In the hustle of it all…she heard a song…and thought of me.

I’m with her.
Even when it feels like I’m not.

#theeverydayiseverything