I’ve noticed that my son, Craig, uses old fashioned words in his texts like, “indeed” and “certainly.” I delight in his collision of proper usage in a medium that regularly slays grammar and reduces communication to pre-written-language symbol (now known as an emoji).
Recently, Craig surprised me with a new pair of walking shoes. When they arrived on our doorstep I was painting so was wearing my paint-splattered-worn-to-death-grubby clothes when I tried on my cool new shoes. They immediately elevated my status and felt really good, too! I told Kerri that I was a dandy from the ankles down. “Don’t get carried away,” she said. She has grown accustomed to my usual unmade-bed style of dress.
I wrote Craig telling him that I loved my shoes. “Truly!” I added as a nod to his parlance.
“Ha!” he replied, “Happy random Monday.”
Ha, indeed! Now, it’s time for a proper walk!
read Kerri’s blog post about DANDY
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The Direction of Intention 
> Your post brought a tear to my eye – at (30 am when I was walking the dog for the first of six forays into the neighborhood. First you referred to him as your so. And second he sent you a gift so near to Fathers’ Day. Sounds like that relationship is coming of age.
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