He came into this world 39 years ago and and BANG! my life was never the same. And he was so observant, right from the start. Here's a photo of him paying rapt attention to his mother at only three or four months old:
Well, I would draw for him and I had a guitar, so he naturally took up music and developed an interest in illustration. Then he grew older, went off to college, was working in New York, flying back occasionally to be lead guitarist in a Seattle band. From there, he began designing shoes for a Redmond-based golf shoe company, called Bite. (The company's marketing director just happened to be a childhood chum who was base guitarist for the band.) Croc bought Bite and Tracy ended up being head of children's shoe design for Croc. Then he got recruited by Puma, and for the last couple of years he's been working in Nuremberg, Germany.
But he was making fashion statements a long time before that. Check out this photo of him, and how that homely baby in the background was jealously intent on his stocking cap. Even then my kid had style.
What does this have to do with the blog? Well, Tracy's on the mailing list, and today I get the following e-mail:
Hi Dad,
I was in the Bangkok airport this morning, now I'm in Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City). We're relatively close!
-Tracy
You could have knocked me over with a feather.
That's the frosting on the cake for what was a long, productive, exhausting and gratifying day. I'll tell you about it as soon as I can. Meanwhile, there's another photo of the Kiddo, below.
Love,
Robert
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