Letters

A graduation letter to a daughter is not just a congratulations. It is a record. Something that says, I was here, I watched you do this, and here is what I want you to know about what I saw. The card on the table gets tossed with the wrapping paper. The letter gets kept. Writing…

A graduation card has a few lines. A graduation letter has room for the whole thing. Everything you have been carrying around in your chest for years, the pride that built slowly and then all at once, the love that does not have a clean word for this specific version of it, the story of…