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The baby turned one recently. We celebrated at a park with friends and family.

(photo by Skylar Suorez)

I’ve been wracking my brain for lessons that I’ve learned about family, parenting, children, or really anything since her birth, but fatherhood hasn’t been the catalyst for wisdom that I expected. Things move too quickly. She ages so much from one week to the next that any insight I might ever gain about her personality will already be outdated and simplistic by the time I commit it to writing. I’m playing a perpetual game of catch-up. The development of her sense of the world and herself has moved at a rocket’s pace since the day she was born. All I want to be is there to assist when needed, and I have to run full-bore for even that.

It’s okay. I could use the exercise.