HEART STRINGS

Heart Therapy

More for me than for you

Warning, today’s Wordle answer is below. To be honest, it’s above also but at this point I don’t care. I’m just writing the spoiler alert piece as a way to start.

My heart hurts today.

My heart hurts because I wasn’t able to help my daughter with something. She’s away at an overnight camp and I couldn’t help her. To be honest, the counselors at that camp should have noticed and helped her. We have gently made them aware of the problem and they will help. To be fair, my wife gently reminded them. I wanted to remind them in a …. different way.

But, that would have been unprofessional, probably would have not actually helped that much, and probably would have resulted in more crying than the other way. But, I still wanted to. And if it’s still a problem this evening, I will.

I’m not going to reveal the problem. Suffice to say it’s not safety threatening, or even really a super big deal. But, it’s something that I could have helped with if I had been there. Because of the logistics of this particular situation, I wasn’t there.

I felt like I had failed her.

I felt like she needed me and I wasn’t there.