I never dreamed I would have such a lovely dream of a girl becoming a woman almost overnight. Wind blowing sideways always reminds me nothing ever goes straight. And that same wind is pushing her on to laughter and stars and the insistent desert sun and Freedom, so bittersweet, so real in this moment. I love that girl and her endless spirit with all the weight of my heart. Sometimes that love can be heavy like the desire to say just one more thing, just one more I love you to make it stick. But when she steps out into that big world waiting to wrap her up in its own arms, my wish for her is friendship, love, and happiness unbound, and to find herself always traveling light.
