I really appreciate this, appreciate you. I keep stumbling around here knocking my knees, and watching you and Marley swim through this with grace. And patience. Grace and patience. This is exceedingly difficult work that I am not exactly well-suited to do. This takes a lot of teaching and mending and redirected and repeating and I’m a one-and-done kind of girl. After that, I resort to swinging bricks.

I do not know how you have been marching strong for as long as you have. But I am happier than you will ever know that you did.