I am trying to cope with the change. I am trying to deal with my three sons now all away from home. My oldest is all the way to Calfornia, where he is a successful film editor, specializing in coloring and bringing to life the flat tones of the original filming. Look for his credited work this Fall in the new CBS drama All Rise!
My middle son lives in metro Atlanta, and is a successful Professional Engineer working in the environmental field. He is married to the beautiful and talented Paige, and they have a home together in a wonderful house where they have solar panels and gardens and bees.
And now, my youngest son is away at college. He is starting his post-secondary academic career at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville. I'm proud of the way he's taken to it so far. He has gotten out of the dorm room and met new people. He has joined the choir. He attended church and has started up with the Episcopal Youth Group.
Not that things have been tear-free. Church was particularly hard yesterday, especially the singing. We were very conscious that his voice was not there next to ours. There were some more tears during a phone call on Sunday afternoon.
Alison and I are trying to fill our lives with some new roads. I am once again in theatre, joining the cast of WACT's Murder on the Orient Express. That's not only practice time, but time taken to learn lines - the older I get, the greater the struggle that is.
Readers of this blog may have noticed that some blog entries are now audio. Thanks to Benjamin's help, I have finally begun to take baby steps towards a potential audio career. Hopefully, I will get more polished as time goes on.
We've completed some series binge-watching, recently completing Legion (intriguing but weird - I hate to say it - may be almost too weird), and the first season of You (intense by Lifetime standards). We're now moving on to the last season of Preacher.
Some familiar roads have also been left behind. I am moving away from the Writer's Guild. Five plus years of trying to sustain it have been wearing to me, and I have to take a break from it. There are some ideas to move forward, but I have to backburn for awhile. It has to grow to exist without my consistent involvement.
Right now, I'm still involved in a summer audit at work, so that should keep me occupied this month.
And Labor Day Weekend is coming soon. And that hopefully means a visit from Benjamin!
The roads are winding. The roads are new.
But they're still there. And they can be traveled.
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