If you love something set it free

Kenny Ray came to me this evening and said "Dad I think I would like to go to college" and maybe learn to be an architect. I said son if that's what you think you want to do dad will help you do what ever you want. I then told him to look up on the Internet for information on it, and that I took a year of drafting in high school and have some of the drawing tools here in the house somewhere that he could have. I also gave him a set of blueprints that I have for a house to look at. I then told him that if he wanted to design him a small house that we would build it down on the farm. He then asked me "what about a tree house" can we build that. I said ok as long as you draw it all out and you keep the frame work in a 16 x 16 floor plan. He asked how he was to do that.

so I showed him a video on you tube about a man that lives in a 14 x 14 solar powered cabin, and it showed his water and waste systems, He was impressed but thought the house was a little rough in finish work, but the man built it for $2000.00 dollars. We continued to talk and he drew some rough sketches for me. While he was drawing and talking , I started thinking I was losing my best friend and my dream. I have written of my dream of him and his family living on the farm with Tari and me. The two of us working the land. But I love my son and I want him to be happy even if it means letting him go to chase the false industrial dream of possession's. As a parent it is my responsibility to be able to provide him the tools to succeed in life even if it means

an end to my dream. He has the right to follow his, just as my mother aloud me to follow mine. I always think of that saying " if you love something set it free, if it comes back it is yours if not it never was. So I will have my sister start prepping him with a more college directed curriculum.

I know he is only 12 but I feel it best for him to be ready for college if he decides to go than to decide at 18 to go and not be ready at least he might be eligible for a scholarship or grant and not have to start borrowing money from an industrial system that it's intent is to keep him in a never ending cycle of debt.