I know finally how it feels

I know finally how it feels. I remember leaving Des Moines for Cedar Rapids and bidding my father and mother goodbye, but it was only two hours away so it wasn't like leaving forever. We would see them often. Then I left them for Indiana. There were tears in my fathers eyes. I didn't see them much after that. They moved to Florida and I never saw my father again as he died in less than nine months. But still I didn't know the feeling that they must have felt when I left Des Moines.

Today my dearest daughter Kelly and her husband Don left her home of Fort Wayne to start a new adventure. She and Don drove away this morning to New Hampshire where Don starts his new assignment.

As I hugged and kissed her goodbye, I suddenly knew what my parents must have felt those many years ago. The tears came and the lump in the throat.

I can't even imagine how it must have been for my great grandparents when my grandfather left Denmark back in 1870 for the new world, knowing they would never see their son again.

It was my eight first birthday yesterday. And time is not on my side. In my mind, I thought will I ever see her again. But yes I will and often. I love her dearly.