[lit-ideas] What I meant to say with I said what I meant to say what I'd said.
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:59:12 -0500
DR:
I'm not a softie like Geary.
Sir, I'll have you know that since I've started taking Levitra, I've had to
seek immediate medical attention 10 times. That's over 40 hours. Can you
beat that?
I believe in discipline and much of the stuff that he says you don't need.
Well, if I said that, that's not exactly what I meant to say. What I meant
to say was that you can say anything you want, but no kid is going to take
it to heart if they don't know you love them unconditionally. If your kid
can't earn your love because it has always been and always will be
irrevocably there, then they might -- just maybe -- do as you do, though
probably not as
you say.
From Khalil Gibran's _The Prophet_:
And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, "Speak to us of
Children."
And he said:Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not
even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you
with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is
stable.
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God, I still love that. Maybe I am a softie.
Mike Geary
Memphis
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