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 [email protected]

  

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