Avocados

I missed avocados yesterday.

My darling wife fed my son avocados for the first time yesterday while I was businessing several hundred miles away. She offered to wait, so I could enjoy the experience with her.  I said no—why would I hold my baby from experiencing things just because I can’t be there to ogle and take photos. But it did give me pause (cue “Cats in the Cradle”). I’m going to have to travel for work. That is simply a given. I’m not alone, of course; many other people—moms and dads—have to leave their families for work travel. I even enjoy traveling, but I don’t have to like being away from them. It is just going to take an extra effort when I am home. 

This post seems pretty prosaic.  But it is true, and it is what I’m feeling while sitting on the last row of a tiny plane, adjacent to the bathroom, in a chair that doesn’t recline, about 25,000 feet above the state of Delaware.