Pagosa Springs

My children and grandchildren are all in one place this week, and I'm following along with pictures that arrive along with texts on my phone:

Tom in Pagosa Springs

And Daisy

And Marcus

I'm imagining what it must be like for the four cousins to be together after a year.  I'm imagining what it must be like for Day and Will to watch their children playing in rivers and streams they loved as kids. They are, as I write this, making indelible memories and claiming Colorado one of their favorite places, as we once did.

Part of the inevitable aftermath of divorce is that grandparents--unlike the happily coupled grandparents in storybooks--have to take turns.  This is the summer of camping with their father (my ex)--and his whatever-you-call-her (girlfriend?) and Girlfriend's children and grands.