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About a Legacy
Aug. 28th, 2017 09:57 pmTomorrow afternoon, my grandson will be coming to the house to help with the workshop that we've been building in my basement. Over the summer, he's been here every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, for two hours each day.
We've missed some time due to illness, his, then mine, but we've accomplished a lot, both in terms of what we've built and with respect to what we've learned. The fact is, the scope of the project was always much greater than the two work benches, the bench-top tool display, and the parts storage unit that we'll be completing this week.
In any case, the parts unit will likely be our last project before he returns to school for the eighth grade in about another week. After that, I'm not quite sure what our work schedule will look like, but I do know that it's been a fun, instructive, and very positive experience for me. And I very much hope that it's been the same for him.
Above all, I hope that I've imparted a few things, life lessons, if you will, that he'll remember later on and associate with our time together.
Because this is a special time for both of us; for him, because of the unprecedented change and growth which comes with the teen years; for me, because of an increasing focus on whatever legacy I might hope to have left when I'm done with this life.
I trust that what we've done, over the summer here, will have made our respective experiences everything that we might've needed or hoped for them to be.
I pretty certain that it has been for me...
LPK
Dreamwidth
8.28.2017
We've missed some time due to illness, his, then mine, but we've accomplished a lot, both in terms of what we've built and with respect to what we've learned. The fact is, the scope of the project was always much greater than the two work benches, the bench-top tool display, and the parts storage unit that we'll be completing this week.
In any case, the parts unit will likely be our last project before he returns to school for the eighth grade in about another week. After that, I'm not quite sure what our work schedule will look like, but I do know that it's been a fun, instructive, and very positive experience for me. And I very much hope that it's been the same for him.
Above all, I hope that I've imparted a few things, life lessons, if you will, that he'll remember later on and associate with our time together.
Because this is a special time for both of us; for him, because of the unprecedented change and growth which comes with the teen years; for me, because of an increasing focus on whatever legacy I might hope to have left when I'm done with this life.
I trust that what we've done, over the summer here, will have made our respective experiences everything that we might've needed or hoped for them to be.
I pretty certain that it has been for me...
LPK
Dreamwidth
8.28.2017
