EXPRESSION
By: Iris P. Concepcion

Have you ever experienced scooped out from your cocoon and suddenly, you are propped in an environment of instant families?

This morning I thought I won't be able to speak about mushy things once again but I did. You understand why everything must be worked on. He had promised you shall be alright, but the full comprehension that everything that the universe grants is there for the taking is much a wider latitude of calm that I had felt amid the confusion sowed.

The little one was once asked by this writer what he found good about her personhood. Two words: "you seem to truly care and kind."

I laugh at his assessment now. I write this to express that the reverse is truer: he had his whole family picked me at some odd roads before, leaving me as is, respecting my choices. It was not a throttling kind of attention. I was blabbered on and they simply entered and took up the cudgels for me.

Yes father, you raised them up good, well and tough. I just realized that now.

He thus said: "You can now hold hands."

I needed permission to do exactly just that. Respect comes in many forms and character is when you give it at the precise moment it must shine through.

I am going to our burger joint first thing in the morning to give my hearty thank you.