Dear My Sweet Girl, Lately I’ve been getting better at walking with my prosthetic leg. In our house we call it my robot leg . Barrett and Collin think that name is really cool, and honestly I do too. Learning to walk with it hasn’t been easy. The hardest part was how much it hurt at the beginning. Some days it hurt so much that I wanted to stop and sit down. But I kept telling myself something very important. I’m going to figure this out. Little by little I’ve been getting st

Daughter, This morning I was painting while listening to music. I enjoy the focus and peacefulness of it. I had been putting a lot of time and care into the painting. While I was working on it, a thought popped into my head. I realized that paintings, just like notebooks, can get lost someday. Things can be misplaced, damaged, or disappear over time. And that made me think about these letters. I would be very sad if the notebook with all the letters I write to you ever got lo