Navel Gazing

John Dickerson’s Notebooks: Sending our Son to College


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In this week’s essay, John remembers dropping his son off at college, and trying to hold onto moments and feelings while you can. 

 

Notebook Entries:

Notebook 75, page 6. September 2021:

They chose you.

 

Notebook 15, page 4. April 2004:

Sitting with Brice by waterfall. Throwing rocks in stream. Loading sand from dump truck and loader and back again.

 

References:

What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith

Songwriter Nick Cave

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

 


Podcast production by Cheyna Roth.

Email us at navelgazingpodcast@gmail.com

  

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