Wee Tiny

I had a special treat today. My daughter Athena came over to spend the afternoon with me. Athena is a delightful person with a rare quality... everyone loves her. She is patently inoffensive. A gentle soul who would never deliberately hurt anyone, I see her as very Christ-like... oddly, she is an agnostic. Please don't read anything into my words beyond the words themselves.

Athena, who was the baby of our large family for years, also has an endearing Peter Pan quality about her. She has always been petite and my mother nicknamed her Wee Tiny. Some of her siblings still call he "Wee." As she approaches 40, she still gets "carded."

Even as a kid, Athena was an individualist, but in a nice way rather than a thumb your nose at society, snotty way. Thankfully, even though she is adorable, she hasn't exploited that into a terminal case of cuteness. She's a woman of depth and intelligence and someone I admire greatly.

I'm so exceedingly honored God chose me to be Athena's mother. Most of her adult life we have lived miles apart and in many ways haven't known one another as adult friends do. I'm sure that there is much about each other we don't know. Now that we live closer together, it's nice to get a chance to know one another better as friends.