ライアン・ダニエル・ドブソンさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ライアン・ダニエル・ドブソンInstagram)「A friend told me today that they “don’t believe in days anymore.” —— We’ve developed a tradition at the beginning of every school year where we go on a hike in Malibu and then have lunch at Malibu Seafood. Part of that tradition has been a father-child tower that is getting increasingly difficult to replicate as the kids grow. Time is a strange thing these days, isn’t it? We have lost so many of the markers of its passage. Going into work. The regularity of school. The habituation of weekly practices. It’s like having a year where the seasons have been stripped away and, rather than the reset brought about by spring and then summer and then fall, it’s just one long winter. Which, living in Southern California with its endless summer, is arguably what we have. Warmer, but strangely frozen in time. Usually, when reminders of time-passing happen, I don’t like them. They so easily force me to reconcile what I haven’t yet accomplished or what hasn’t changed that I wish would or how quickly the things I love are slipping away. But now, having lived through a COVID-initiated time-vacuum of sorts, I can see the health which temporal reminders offer. When I’m forced to realize how much my kids have grown by how hard it now is to do a double piggyback ride, I am also implicitly reminded how much I should treasure the hike and the lunch of fish and chips and the silly conversations that come later. —— You are changing and growing. The markers along the path might be harder to find, the pencil marks up the door frame might be more faint - but we are all still moving through the seasons. Believe in days. Celebrate them.」8月30日 12時50分