you are all so right. the storm clouds have parted and sun is shining here and there, literally and figuratively. I woke this morning from a chemically enhanced good night's sleep. I "braced" myself with a half a xanax and hit the road. (Please don't over read into the xanax stuff. It is first aid for me and far from being a routine.) With some aprehension I entered the house. Nothing. No tension. No comment at all about the past few days. There was an elephant in the room, but it was well behaved. We talked, ate, drank, talked about the usual topics, and the new baby of course. My son showed me some new software he is working for sale and I tried to follow his coding logic to little avail. Wanting to avoid an immenent visit of the in laws we left after a couple hours. At that point I mentioned the elephant in the room that we had ignored. I simply said I was very sorry for things I said and the contributions I made to the mess. My son said likewise.

We all felt, I think, like the healing began and it will continue to work quickly and with little scarring. We discussed nothing of the details. I don't know that we need to do that.

Thank you for being there with your quick and right on comments. It was, for all of us, a pretty serious crisis. So very thankfully, it now seems that it will have been a quick one with few lingering ill effects.