Essential Questions a decade later

This post originally figured as work related, a teacher's assignment a decade ago.  Now essential questions must be personal. And what I think mostly about them is that they feel too personal to post publicly or perhaps even to formulate for my own conscious consideration.   Fearful things, are they?   Since I shy away from sharing them with others or even myself, I'd say that's fearful.   I might for example stumble into saying that I haven't seen my darling grandsons in a year exactly and have no idea when I'll see them again.  Such a briar patch!  I don't want to state the particulars of a family rupture that is all too commonplace in our world.  8-4-17

The boys are 10 years old in these photos I took in August, 2016, except for the last one taken June, 2017, by their dad.