Can I be happy *and* sad?
We’re moving across the country. My seven year old daughter, who was born in New York and raised in NJ, is trying to grapple with her emotions concerning the move. By moving West she will be right near one set of grandparents and tons closer to the others as well. However, she will be leaving friends that she has literally grown up alongside - in many ways her surrogate extended family. So she tells my wife and I the other day that she is happy to be moving near grams and gramps, but she is sad to leave her friends. And then she asks the question that adults simply deal with (through escape, anger, repression, etc.), “Can I be happy *and* sad at the same time?” Our answer of course was yes. But I do think she may just need a cube grenade to help her adjust and change from a brisk and hardened culture to one that can embody the pioneering and can-do attitude of the original explorers who forged West.
Thank you, Hugh, for your honest art and commentary.
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