A Gift from Ben

Betsie and I were going to the UpFront to watch our sons in an improv show. Included in the cast were their best friends, Tim & Ben, with whom they had grown up. Before the show started, I was buying something to drink in the lobby. Ben happened to be standing there, similarly purposed. I offered to buy him something but he said, “You’ve done so much for me, let me get this for you.” I looked him in the eye, this strong clear-eyed young man I have watch grow up with my sons and said, “OK, Thank you.” They do grow up and the do remember.