The Days of Our Lives

You’ll have to forgive me. I am not going to be behind the microphone today and will not be focused on politics or the headlines.

I’m not exactly old, but somehow I find myself old enough to be taking my daughter on a college tour today. She is desperate to go to Georgia Tech’s Aerospace Engineering School.

My sixteen-year-old started putting money in a jar when she was five to go to SCAD, the Savannah College of Art and Design. At fifteen, her school moved her into the senior art class. I know parents like to say their kids are gifted at art, but I’m not kidding. She did that digitally at fifteen.

Somewhere along the way, she got really good at math and also wasn’t so sure she’d fit in at Art School. So off we go today to Georgia Tech. She’s going sooner than she needs to. But unlike her father, she is not a procrastinator.

Where does time go?

I was thinking about this the other day. Ideally, I have thirty more years behind a radio microphone. I never even expected a job in radio and now I can’t imagine ever not doing it. And I have frustrations about growth of affiliates and the slow pace and will I get to where I want in terms of show growth, income, etc. This week, in particular, has been one of compounded frustrations and also the voice in my head that I only have a few years more before suddenly I actually am the old guy. It’s odd to be at that place.

But my gosh I don’t feel old enough to be carting a kid off to see a college. I have a friend who is forty and has two toddlers. I have to admit I’m glad I had my kids at a young age. But I feel like I’m supposed to be ten years older than I am to be going off to check out a college.

Time is fleeting. Someone told me recently that time goes so slow as a child because every day is a large percentage of your known life, but as you get older, each day is a smaller percentage of your whole life. Here we are in March and soon I’ll be putting back up the Christmas tree.

It’s all enough to remind me that while there is so much to fret about on a daily basis with the world, politics, the news, culture, etc. there are things far more important than that, and God’s still in control of it all.

I’ll be back tomorrow.