What I know for certain
I was describing all the areas of my life yesterday as great big bubbles of uncertainty and someone said, “Well your love for Tin is certain.” And that of course is true. A friend’s son hit a home run yesterday to win a tied baseball game and you would have thought that he had won a Pulitzer – it brought proud tears to my eyes too. Love your children – that is a fact. I wanted to have children because I know first hand that my grandmother, my mother, my aunts, uncles, brothers have all told me the same thing all my life – that having children was what what made them happy. I was reading a passage that my cousin included on a pictorial memorial that she had put together of my grandmother after she passed, it was written in November 1999, three years before her death; my grandmother said:
I have always been very proud of all my children. They grew up to be very fine men and women. I have never regretted the life we had together. There’s nothing in my power I wouldn’t have done for them. I would do it all over again if need be. I love each and everyone of my family very much. Their love has made my life very happy.