'I’m not trying to hold it together anymore,' columnist DCameronSmith writes. 'What matters is how my family, friends, and I respond to life’s chaotic challenges. We develop character. We grow. I don’t know how it will turn out, but I’m optimistic.'
From birth my mother hammered polite manners and social graces into my thick skull. I can work a room, glad hand, and box waltz with the best. Over time I developed the palsy that comes with Southern charm. The most painful moments in my life cloaked themselves with a grimace and a bit of minimizing humor.
We also don’t see how people react to life’s explosions until they actually occur. I’m not interested in waiting. I want to know how my people will end up.
Family and friends ask me how they can help, and my first reaction is to wonder what they’ve seen as evidence of my lack of capacity or capability. Was it the sheetrock patches in my house? Did they see me dozing off at the gym with my laptop open in front of me? Wait, was I supposed to pick up one of the kids and forgot?Some critter absolutely exploded a mockingbird in my backyard. All that was left was a pile of feathers and a leg. My boys asked me what we should do about it.
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