Okay, Pod Squad, here we are today.

I have been a little bit dreading this episode to tell you the truth.

I keep pushing it off and off and off and saying to the team,

why don't we record something

else today?

But here we are.

What we are going to talk about with you today is, well, we just dropped our tishy off at college.

And that has brought up low so many feelings and existential dreads and love and love and terror and

so many big feelings.

And so the moment that I knew I wanted to talk to you all about this is

the moment right before we left Tish in her dorm room. And here's the thing. I, when the kids were little,

talked about them a lot to you all, to this community. We were in the trenches together of

young parenthood. We were dripping with children and they were sucking us dry.

And the only thing that we could do to survive while we were being mercilessly pecked

to death by chickens in our homes was to commiserate together.

And that was a beautiful thing.

And then the kids got older and I started feeling a real strong sense of protection of them.

It's like when they get to a certain age, you realize that they have their own story and they're living their own life and the

vend diagram of what is ours to share becomes smaller and smaller and smaller the older they

get until there is no overlap in terms of what is shareable.

Right?

I mean, that's how, I think that's very true.

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