Blonde on Blonde by Will Leitch
All of Will Leitch's newsletters are worth reading, but this one in particular struck a chord for me—though from the player's POV, not the parent's:
The parent heard me huff and saw me check my watch. He patted me on the back, not unkindly.
“Don’t rush this,” he said. “You’re gonna miss it.”
He continued.
“This is my boy’s last year. We’ve been coming out here since he was a four-year-old in T-ball. Now we’ve only got a couple of games left. And then it’s over.”
He patted me on the back again.
“You’ll wish, someday soon, you could still come out here with him,” he said, looking past me now, out onto the field. “But you won’t be able to. It’ll be over.”
I stopped checking my watch after that.