Trust Life

We share a side of our 4-unit townhome community with Franklin, a Berkeley mathematics postdoc working at Rice, who is job hunting.  This weekend he was preparing for an interview at the Naval Academy, and we briefly talked in our shared driveway.  He was on his way to buy an overcoat, have his shoes repaired, and he asks if I thought he should buy a briefcase.  I told him, “You look comfortable with your backpack and that is important for you need to just be you!”  As he backed his car out of the driveway, I thought how we back in and out of ourselves as we practice who we will become, and how important it is to trust in this journey we call life.