I want you to know I won’t always be angry with you.

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July 23, 2023

Dear David,

I see you read today’s post. And yesterday’s. So maybe you’re back from the beach. I don’t know. I assume you’ll text me when you’re ready to banter.

I want you to know I won’t always be angry with you. And even now, it’s not constant. It was wrong what you did, but I do know it was not intentional. I hope you won’t do it to anyone else, but that’s not on me, that’s on you. I release that expectation.

I truly do love you and want what is best for you. I support you in your every effort to pursue the things that are important to you, the things that feed your soul (so to speak).

I thought about going back and adding to yesterday’s post, softening it a bit, putting more caveats in there that it’s not your fault, that you didn’t do anything but just be you. You were on your own path. You on your path just happened to not fit with me on mine.

On the other hand, I hope what I wrote had enough facetiousness that it’s clear I don’t blame you. If anything, I’m most angry with myself for staying in it so long when I should have recognized it wasn’t going to work. But I can’t be angry with myself about that. I just can’t. Even when I commit to a thing and fail, I learn so much. I don’t regret any of the time I…