It’s been a while since I’ve last written an update and I’m sure many people are wondering what’s been happening with me and Darshen. He just turned a year old and is speed crawling everywhere. He can stand on his own and will take his exciting first steps any day now. His favorite activities are to empty clothes drawers and pick up handfuls of dirt at the park. As you might imagine, I’m kept very busy taking care of him and the book I am trying to write has been going very slowly since I don’t have entire hours of time to devote to it.
I just returned from a trip to North Carolina where Darshen and I met with what seemed like all of Reid’s family, three sometimes four generations of relatives were present. They were all wonderfully nice people who had such fond memories of Reid growing up, building the boat and also as an adult. I even saw pictures of him and his siblings as children. Yes, there were one or two physical traits that Darshen clearly shared with his father’s younger self!
It was a trip of many firsts for our son. Darshen had his first experience of the beach there, his first boat ride, and even got hands on with some of Reid’s beautiful figurative paintings created over thirty years ago.
Now back in New York, the time is flying by quickly. With each passing week Darshen does something new and amazing and I am challenged to grow with him. Reid and I still communicate every day by email and he is in a good place right now. A place filled with beauty, magic, and hard work, the trademarks of a moment well lived. Before you know it, he will be back and we will be living those moments together.