[lit-ideas] Re: Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments
- From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:06:05 +0900
Beautiful. And for me a real nostalgia trip.
John
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Paul Stone <pastone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 4:44 PM, <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Everybody is congratulating Dads, but I can't think but of Edmund Gosse,
> > and his memoirs. What a book!
> >
>
> I don't take much congratulations, since unlike mothers, other than
> our petit-mort, we did nothing -- well, if you count dealing with a
> moody, over-the-top irrational being and catering to her every whim
> for 9 months "nothing" -- our work begins after the birth, and if
> we're honest, only after year one, when the previously designated
> worm-like, manure factory becomes a sentient being who is fully bonded
> with mama but thinks of Daddy as "this guy who comes home each night
> and plays with me for a few hours until I'm put down again". I think
> it's the responsibility that we 'traditionally' bear.
>
> My son is 25 months old now. On Father's day, he got me up early
> whispering in my ear, in his breezy morning voice "hi... Daddy". I
> quietly shooed him out of the room so his mother could sleep in and
> got him dressed. It was a wonderful, early summer, sunny morning.
> There was a blue sky and a charity triathlon had just begun with
> contributions to "fight prostate cancer". Bikers, swimmers and runners
> were in various stages of the race. We walked hand-in-hand to a marina
> close to our house (about half a mile) to look at the ducks in the
> lake in the early morning. It was the first time I felt like "Dad" and
> it had NOTHING whatsoever to do with the so-called day. To me, it
> really was a father's day. For the first 10 minutes he merely named
> things: tree, bird, cat, doggie, fence, green grass. Then he became
> quiet as he smiled and walked into the wind with his long hair
> blowing away from his eyes. For a moment, contemplative, he looked up,
> pointed at me and said "daddy", then pointed at himself and said
> "matthew", then pointed straight and said "walk"... "nice" and
> giggled. I guess I'm in for the long haul now.
>
> p
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