It’s very interesting how people perceive time so differently. A certain song, scent, date, weather or an action that triggers the human brain. My wife and I, for example clearly look at memories very differently. However there is one memory that we both agree on that makes us smile ear to ear. Ten years ago tomorrow (April 1, 2012) our oldest son threw a college no-hitter against a pretty good hitting team that had led the conference in hitting. It was no April Fools. It was an unbelievable thing to witness and share. I’ll never forget all the details of that day….who I sat with…who I talked to during the game. But, here’s the thing that really made my wife and I stop and think about what our son had done but more about the person he had become. There was an older gentleman who had witnessed the game with us. We had no idea who he was, and he actually wrote an article in a historical framework about what our son had done and what he thought about our son when he met him after the game.
Every year an April 1 passes us by. I think of the kind words a stranger wrote about meeting my oldest son, and taking the time to share his thoughts. It makes Mom and Dad very proud.
