Here’s an amazing story shaped from the most common of material: growing old together.

I’ve always loved stories that chronicle the passage of time because in their broad sweep is transcendence, a life lived and recorded, a chance to “give the mundane its beautiful due,” as Updike put it.

The mundane here sure is beautiful. Because of his father’s position in the military, Solomon’s parents lived exciting, continental lives — citizens of the world! — but that’s not really the point of Chris Solomon’s piece. I won’t spoil it but will say in the selection of the just-right details Solomon pulls off something Skip Hollandsworth…