Brother, I also wish for you to know that I have written more words in this letter than I have said to your son.
That fact does not align with any feeling of happiness.
Now I am saying this to you as one father to another. Our responsibility is for our children to spend time with each other because they are first-cousins, and they are beautiful human beings who have no need for the problems we share, which are foolish, and to be honest it never was discussed and so it is nothing. POOF. Yet it is still lingering. I don’t know what it could be at this point as it’s been two-years since we’ve spoken and our pause has gone on longer than COVID. It can’t be worse than COVID. It must mean there’s an absence of LOVE that has been replaced with fear and indifference and denial. You can’t deny LOVE. Love doesn’t belong to anyone. It comes and goes through channels of thought and feeling and blesses everything it touches.
So I encourage you to let it go. All of it. All the ill-will. All the bad …