It’s been a busy summer already, and I’ve been slacking at this blogging thing, but I still love reading the blogs of my friends, and I thought you might enjoy visiting a few of them with me, so here goes…

My friend Cindy Englan in Colorado posted a beautiful ode to her son titled Milestones, where she wrote, in part: “He’ll be turning 21 this year. Twenty one. My baby. A legal adult. It wasn’t so much an O.M.G. moment as it was mom-nostalgic. I was driving along, listening to him chatter on about friends and work and buying books for college, and half my mind went its own way and called up a vivid picture of a little boy with straight, silky, dark hair, a bright yellow jacket, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle sneakers on feet almost too big for his body, a tiny smile finally breaking thru the cloud of tears in his beautiful brown eyes. His still-pudgy hand was encased in mine and we were walking away from the school building, away from everything he and I had known as ‘education’. He didn’t utter a word, but he didn’t have to. Those eyes said it all. Thank you, mom. I don’t want to be called ‘slow’ anymore. I don’t want to go to the doctor and be diagnosed with ADD. I’m not a troublemaker. I’m just bored and I don’t learn this way. I want to go home with you and my big brother, where it’s safe to be me.”

Click the link above to read Cindy’s entire essay. I’ll share more blogs from my friends from time to time.

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