Picture taken at my son's graduation party 2006
Brown Family Picture June 2005
This is a piece I found when I was preparing for Ben's high school graduation. It fit the moment then, and it fits my mood now as I celebrate/struggle with the news that Ben is engaged to Jolene and wants to be married this summer. It's another milestone right?! Three Cheers for young love!!
"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you,And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.You may house their bodies but not their souls. For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness; For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.” -The Prophet
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