The Direction of Intention

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I’m wiling away an hour in the Muse Coffee house. The place is mostly deserted so the barista and I are having a sporadic chat between customers. He looks tired and I told him so. He smiled a knowing smile and told me that he was a new father and there wasn’t much sleeping going on in his house. I closed my computer and he came from behind the counter and sat with me at my table.

I asked him what it felt like to be a dad and he said, “You know.” I told him that, actually I don’t know. I don’t have any children. I am a sometime uncle – I rarely see my nieces and nephews as they are spread out across the country. He sat back in his chair and stared at me for a moment and said, “I thought so many other things were important. Really important. And then I became a father and nothing else matters. Nothing. Not even sleep.” We laughed. His eyes beamed and filled with tears; this young man that I did not know until 20 minutes ago, a man I’d never seen prior to walking into Muse, allowed himself a vulnerability that he probably hasn’t allowed himself in years. He said, “Life is an amazing thing,” he said, wiping his eyes.

Yes. It is.

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