Things that needed saying

Our daughter is in Oklahoma this week, helping to lead a conference.  She will return and go back to being a camp counselor on Sunday.  More practice in leaving and returning and leaving again.  In September we will drive her to Colorado to begin her freshman year at University of Denver.  I am grateful all three of us visited there before she made her choice.

We knew

When the tour guide

Kindly yet firmly corrected

The young man

Who mispronounced her name;

We knew

When the honors student offered

This college was not her first choice,

But she still loved it here;

We knew

When the mountains rose

In the distance

These were all  things

That needed saying,

And our daughter

Would have another home

Here.