Thank you for your thoughts and insights, flyer. You are right about our needing to set them free, but it’s so difficult, as you well know.
I think that sending your kids out into the world is also another way to mark time and our own mortality. As long as they’re with us, we can still feel young-ish. When they leave, images of growing old and infirm start creeping in. It’s a major landmark on this very short timeline we call life.
