The Hardest Goodbye

Sometimes we exist simply to fill some gap in someone else’s journey. Sometimes, they wander into our path to fill a gap in our own.

A couple of days ago I said good-bye to my daughter . Yet, even as I write those words — my daughter — it feels so surreal, as if to suggest that there was some kind of ownership involved in our relationship. Yet that’s not what it was. She was the singular kind of spirit that the universe loans out from time to time to make the world a little brighter, and I was simply a…