Today is TC’s Birthday.

And, People, I’m a little sad.

I know. It’s a happy occasion and I shouldn’t be, but I am, because tonight as we were walking in to the restaurant I stopped and looked at him.

As in looked looked at him.

Unlike Maman, he appears every bit his age.

And tonight it acutely hit me — The Truth that our time is not much longer.

If I get another 10 years, I’ll be thrilled, and even that — is just ten years. I want more. Yet there might not be more.

This is nothing new. We are all on this Earth, coming and going. Going and coming.

It’s what we do in this cycle and this circle.

We don’t know when our time could be up. I never really stop to think about it and tonight I have.

It’s a good wake up call to treasure this time and these days now. We can’t wait to enjoy our People. We need to hold on and pull them in and love on them a little longer now.

While now is available.

And let all that unnecessary bullshit go. It doesn’t matter. Not one little bit.