…Love, Grandpa: The Book
I’m writing it for this young man, Logan James…LJ
You see LJ was born the day after my wife’s and mine 48th Wedding Anniversary.
On the day he was born I wrote this letter to him but in doing so…
….one thing struck me, struck me right in the heart.
Math.
Basic math not the new stuff no one gets.
And so the math is this…
I’m 70 years old, with a variety of health issues, cancer survivor, pacemaker and other things.
Math.
LJ is now currently 11 months old.
You do the math…sure I wanna play catch with him as I have done thousands of times with his father, my son, and what my Uncle Jim did with me.
“Catch” is a family tradition.
Math.
But it ain’t all about throwing a ball, catching a ball, because with about every throw Uncle Jim talked with me, as I have done with me son, words in the air along with the ball.
Talks about life, talks about what was on the minds of the thrower & catcher.
Math.
I’ll be in my 80’s before LJ can “Go deep, catch it.”
If that is, I’m even still around to throw it.
So this is what I’m doing…just in case…
I’m writing him a book, a book of notes of things I would say while the ball was in the air…
…a book of short sayings, things I think he should know as he grows up…
…just in case I’m not there to tell him face to face.
Math…
Every week, on Sunday night, every Sunday for his 1st year of life, I add a new note to the box for LJ…the final note is already done:..this…
…LOVE WINS
It is something I have written dozens and dozens of times in dozens and dozens of published columns and if I leave any words for LJ those two words will sustain him and guide him through life.
It is my belief that it is the simple reason why we are here in the first place, to love.
Find love in the universe and with it there will be life.
