Brilliant … But Bouncy

It Was Possibly His Best Performance Ever.

For Family Weekend, we went to see Dylan. He was doing better than he had been when we rudely visited before he’d gotten his bearings. In fact, he was doing really, really well.

He’s taking 14 credits, including chorus and voice lessons. He’s registered for a study abroad program. He’s getting good grades and doing what he needs to do to keep good grades.

Dylan is not only completing his work on time, and talking to his professors, and keeping his room clean, and finding friends, and singing and jamming whenever possible. Dylan is actually happy!

It’s awesome to see him so happy. It’s the best thing about college so far – and there are a lot of good things about college.

But even though he’s feeling content, and even though he’s practically giddy in his independence, he is still over-the-top phenomenal when he’s on stage.

So during Family Weekend, we convinced him to get up and sing at Open Mic night. We enjoyed the vast talents – mostly girls with guitars who had written their own songs. (That would have been me in another life.) But we especially enjoyed Dylan’s performance.

He got up to sing and had a few mishaps. First, his phone battery was dying. Then a cord came loose, a mic was turned off, and he nearly knocked over the keyboard stand. He temporarily forgot the words to the song. And the tiny stage could barely contain his large presence.

Yet it was possibly his best performance ever.

So I’m sharing it here, in case anyone else wants to see it.

I watch it every day, because it makes me smile and cry at the same time. And as a mom, there’s nothing better.