This letter is to my girls…

Dear Cali & Macy;

I hope one day when you are all grown up you can see the value in the details of everyday life. That everyday you wake up and have the pursuit of breathing in air like you have never felt it feel coarse through your lungs. When you see the smile on a strangers face that you acknowledge it and return it in full even if you don’t quite feel like it. The reason is that they are contagious and just the simple physical act of your lips raising,will diminish the magnitude of whatever is on your mind.

I hope you never harden or become jaded. Allow the world to enter you at full force and embrace every hurtful lesson that you will endure. It is in these awful situations that you will gain the most value. The most acute pains force the most driven to supersede anything.

I know both of you have the entire spectrum of possibilities in front of you and as your Dad I will do everything in my power to ensure you can see every angle and when you cant i hope you ask for help.

Surround yourself with real people who know your insides and urge you to grow your outsides. They are the ones that will bring the biggest joys to you

The simple act of learning to know when to ask for help has taken me a long time to figure out. It actually has been the hardest thing for me to come to terms with. I could chalk it up to stubbornness or defiance or just plain stupidity but it has in recent years become one of the few things I know now would have helped a whole lot more if I had of known then.

Take your dreams and make them goals because dreams are just that, dreams. Nothing will ever hold you back if your truly believe….
In all of your being that it is meant to happen.

I will
watch and listen and be so proud
So very very proud of everything you will ever do
because nobody
will ever be able to do it your way and that is why you both are the most special people I have ever met.

I love you

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