An additional thought on Zoe
I recently read this (terrific) New York Times piece about a mom’s thoughts on her daughter going to be college, and this passage jumped out at me:
She is a competent young woman. She makes sound decisions, chooses decent friendships and navigates the world with an inner knowingness that has always belied her age.
This is no humble brag. Much of who she is, quite honestly, has little to do with me. She came into the world [this way]…
“That’s just like Zoe,” I thought when reading it – and it’s true. I’ve long thought of Zoe as an old soul, and I’ve also long thought that it has nothing to do with me. But regardless of how she turned out this way, I’m still proud.
-M