My 19 year old son Alexander is leaving today for a NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School) 3 month program in wilderness training, back woods first aid. It starts in Arizona and then heads up to British Columbia. His younger brother is sad, brooding and angry with me and his mom. Easy targets, I guess.
I'm not sure how I feel; relieved, anxious, excited. Mom said she was going to clean his room after he left but, now, she's changed her mind. Yup.
I'm going to miss him. He's a good person. My wife, Patty, just got that affirmed last night when she went to a school meeting; Ethan's teachers comment, one and all, what men our boys are; how adult they behave. Not like students, but people. I wonder what, if anything, I had to do with that.
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