December 6, 2004

• My incredible son and his equally incredible fiancé have both made recent posts about the growth that has occurred in their lives during their time at Baylor. Watching my son through this period has been one of the greatest joys of my life. He never ceases to astound me and I simply could not be prouder of the person he has become.

  
  

   

  
  

  One of my most vivid memories of this time is dropping him off at Baylor at a debate event after he and I had gone skiing in New Mexico together. This was just before he started school full time at Baylor. He got his luggage out of the trunk, we said goodbye, and I got back in my car to drive back to Tulsa. I pulled away a few feet and stopped to turn a corner. I looked up in my rear-view mirror and just happened to catch a glimpse of him walking away with his luggage in hand. That mental image (and all that it implied) took my breath away and it will forever be seared into my brain.

  
  

   

  
  

  He is a much different person that he was when he walked away from my car that day, and I knew he was going to be. I remember a moment just before he left for school that I started to try and tell him how much he would be changing over the next four years. I didn’t say anything though because I knew that I couldn’t explain it, he would simply have to live it.

  
  

   

  
  

  And he has lived it, in remarkable and extraordinary ways.

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