Swing for the Fences

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I just signed my boys up for summer baseball and it made me so excited. There’s a feeling that belongs to summer, the same feeling I get when I crawl into my bed at the end of the day— the feeling of being safe and warm and that life is happy and good. Sure there are still things to do and we get busy running all over the place, having fun. But none of it seems so bad, when you’re sitting in the warm sun with a popsicle in your hand, right? My youngest child is on his last year of t-ball and like so many other rites of passage, I feel another season ending in our family. I’m going to soak up watching him run from base to base with a batting helmet that looks more like a bobble-head with little toothpick legs running underneath. I’m going to sneak photos of him sitting in the dugout swinging feet that don’t quite reach the ground. I’m going to smile when I watch him heft his bat up, ready to swing, pretending he’s one of the real baseball players he idolizes on tv (I can see his facial expressions already, the imaginative world he slips into so readily). I may not be able to slow down time, but I can savor the most out of the little moments that bring me joy. Life is so good. [Swing For the Fences II” 8x10, available in the shop!]

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