One more step

And so it continues.  I watch my friends drop their children off at college.  I think we*ll be doing the same with our second child same time next fall.  Right now it*s the 250-500 word essay for the Common Application.  This is something which did not exist when our son applied.  Then again this child writes her own book, even as the first one did.  It does not fit in 250-500 words.  No one can write their book in 250-500 words.

Every day brings one more step

In letting go.

At Christmas

His senior year

In high school

Our son gave my beloved and me

A book on parents

Letting go

Of grown children.

Every parent

Every child

Writes his own book,

Writes her own book.

Everyone

Has advice to give

The other.

Still

The letting go happens

One step at a time.

This advice

Is not in book form.

This advice I think
May even be

Universal.