Let our children remind us
How to see the world as a playground
And as a dance floor
And as a place of laughter and joy.
Let them teach us that getting older
Doesn’t make us an adult
And doesn’t remove the child from within.
Let them heal us of our grown-up sicknesses
That most of us accept as inevitable.
This is my journey,
— Nate Long “Owl”
Photo of my daughters, May 2003