lately

i've been feeling more of the daddy girl dynamic than maybe i ever have. i feel like your student a lot of the time, learning how things could or should happen, following you around and imitating you. we've joked about it - i want a carhartt jacket just like my daddy does.

i've always known who you are. somehow, very quickly, early on, we got to the truth of each other. it didn't change anything, or decide a future, but it was definitely different than any other relationship i'd had. whether it was because i was truthful with myself and that made me more truthful with you, or if your presentation of yourself with integrity intact gave me a role model, i'll never know. where do you end and i begin? it's sometimes hard to tell.

we've spent the last few years shedding unneeded baggage. people, things, and places. now, you show me possibilities i'd never seen before, and you are smarter than you know.