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\"\"<\/span><\/span>I promised Henry that if he took a job working as a counselor and pianist at a remote music camp this summer, we would figure out some way to get him to the orthodontist every month.\u00a0 This despite the fact that he has one day off a week, the day off happens to be Sunday, and we live three and a half hours away from\u00a0 Sweden, Maine, where he is senior counselor to a cabin full of fourteen-year-old aspiring musicians.<\/p>\n

And the fact is, it did take a full sixteen hours to drive to Maine last week, pick up Henry, drive to a dock on the shores of Lake Winnepesaukee, meet the kindly orthodontist who was willing to see my son right on his boat, drive back to Maine, drop Henry off in the woods,\u00a0 turn around and drive home.<\/p>\n

I assured Jack that if he wanted to accept an invitation to be an apprentice to a brilliant physical trainer this summer, we\u2019d figure out a way to make it work.\u00a0 This despite the fact that his program runs from 7:30 am to 4:30 pm Monday through Thursday, and we live two hours away from the studio in downtown Boston where Jack is getting a crash course in anatomy, body work, Chinese meridians, flexibility, resistance stretching, and personality types.<\/p>\n

And yes, making it work has meant house-sitting for three weeks in our old neighborhood, and then scrambling among friends to find unused beds and spare keys, parking permits and welcome mats. But the thing I realized this morning, as I awoke on a sway-backed pull-out couch in a friend\u2019s borrowed Harvard Square apartment, is that I will never again be called upon to perform the jobs I\u2019m doing these days–acting as chauffeur and room mate to my two sons.\u00a0 The braces will come off at last.\u00a0 We will break down and get another car.\u00a0 Apartments will be sublet for summer jobs.\u00a0 The kids will find their own way.<\/p>\n

In fact, both of them are really doing that already.\u00a0 All I\u2019m providing here is a helping hand, easing the logistics in enterprises that are very much their own doing.\u00a0 I guess that\u2019s why, despite a few inconveniences, \u00a0I feel grateful to be needed, and why I am treasuring every moment of this unusually rootless summer.\u00a0 Why a lobster roll on the dock and a few hours with Henry in the car was reward enough for the long drive to Maine and back.\u00a0 Why every game of Bananagrams or early morning conversation or stroll through Harvard Square with Jack feels special.\u00a0 Why I don\u2019t mind at all the fact that I am living out of an L. L. Bean bag in Cambridge this week, instead of at home in my own house.<\/p>\n

Soon enough, this summer will end.\u00a0 The only thing I know for sure about next summer is that it will be different.\u00a0 And so I say \u201cyes\u201d to really long drives, to strange beds, and to doing what ever it takes to make things work for right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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