This is lovely, Loren. These college visits are just a few years out for us (and because both my husband and I attended college here in our hometown, fairly new to us both!) so I love hearing about your experience. The old memories superimposed upon the current buildings--what a beautiful and true image!
So much of this resonates from my most recent visits to LU. I see different things on the campus tour than my daughter... A large round swimming pool where I swam as a child, a playground in the woods with a giant R.G. tire-turned-sandbox. Friends' weddings in the little chapel. I think I had at least three different lives on that campus, and now she is starting her own - and mine doesn't come into play, but I don't know how to separate what I know from what she will know. Parenting requires holding securely and loosely at the same time. I'm assuming we'll get better with practice.
This is lovely, Loren. These college visits are just a few years out for us (and because both my husband and I attended college here in our hometown, fairly new to us both!) so I love hearing about your experience. The old memories superimposed upon the current buildings--what a beautiful and true image!
So much of this resonates from my most recent visits to LU. I see different things on the campus tour than my daughter... A large round swimming pool where I swam as a child, a playground in the woods with a giant R.G. tire-turned-sandbox. Friends' weddings in the little chapel. I think I had at least three different lives on that campus, and now she is starting her own - and mine doesn't come into play, but I don't know how to separate what I know from what she will know. Parenting requires holding securely and loosely at the same time. I'm assuming we'll get better with practice.
Yes! So much this, Elizabeth! And I can relate to the “three different lives” in the same place--that’s how my college is for me.