Dear Lucca,
You are turning six this week. Next week, you are finishing Kindergarten. Watching you grow up these past few years has been the greatest reward in my life. Keep that enthusiasm. Keep that curiosity. Keep that energy you bring to everything you do. And most importantly, keep that kindness and warmth in your heart that you so generously share with everyone around you.
I’m sitting on our new “porch deck” this morning reading and listening to the birds (apparently, the bull frogs stop their croaking around dawn). We moved into our new home in Charlotte this weekend. Leaving Hickory was bitter sweet. Leaving the house we brought you home from the hospital in was harder than I thought. Your Mom and I think this was the right move. We think you’ll get a better education here. We think you’ll be surrounded by a broader set of experiences here. And we hope you’ll be exposed to more diverse thinking and viewpoints. Not to mention, the pond! And all the wild-life that comes with it!
But truth is, we are all nervous about the move. And to some extent, we are just making it up as we go. We are doing our best but like everyone else in this world, we have our doubts and our worries. Said differently, “no one knows what they are doing.”
Love,
Dad
Enrichment Notes
A personal birthday letter from a father to his six-year-old daughter Lucca, written the weekend the family moved from Hickory to Charlotte, NC. The author reflects on the emotional weight of leaving their first family home and the uncertainty inherent in major life decisions. The central theme is that universal epistemic humility, the recognition that no one truly knows what they are doing, is a feature of the human condition rather than a personal deficiency. There are no investment-relevant claims or connections to the firm’s thesis notes.