Today the new year begins, and the new issue of Networking Times goes on sale, featuring my last-page editorial, “Love and Residual.”

But of course, you’ve already read it, or most of it — because it is an essay based squarely on a blog post I wrote right here back in September.

It’s worth hopping over to read the piece on the magazine’s site, because the article is a slightly longer and more carefully thought out version of this idea. But in case you don’t, I don’t want you to walk away empty-handed, so I figured the least I could do is share a picture of my two sons — after all, this is pretty much what the whole article is about anyway, right?

So, a quick story.

This past August I was getting dressed for my wedding, in a back room of the church. The photographer suggested we step outside in the back for a few quick outside shots. My sons, meanwhile, had traveled for hours — driving two hours from home (Charlottesville VA) to Dulles airport, flying to Hartford, surviving rental desk hassles (one son with credit card, other son old enough to drive, but neither one having both qualifications — I had to intervene by phone to get the agent to go ahead and give them the car) and driving another 90 minutes to the church.

As it happened, just as we were snapping our shot, a car pulled up, and these two handsome dudes stepped out.

So there you go: love and residual.

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