Wednesday, January 22, 2003

A Little Personal Business

Many thanks and much love to Apple-Pickin' Jenny and everyone else for their kindness and concern. It's been a rough couple of weeks, yeah—the world situation playing hell on nerves already shot by personal concerns and the Old Midwinter Blues, exacerbated by a case of Big Daddy Syndrome.

Do you know this one? In her column in Child magazine, Vicki Iovine quotes a proverb: "The mother of one, the mother of all." And so by its nature motherhood has been linked to all manner of social concerns.

It holds for Dads, too—but, being guys, we tend to express our compassion (as with so many other things) as anger: and when we can't target our anger effectively, we (as with so many other things) internalize it, where it eats us up. As a father, I am in the business of Making It All Better—and when I can't, it makes me a little crazy.

But this is a war. And so we keep on fighting, crazy or not.

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