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ON THE JOB TAUGHT
Saturday June 18, 2016
How do we teach sons to be dads, what do we teach daughters? Fathering? Easy. Sperm contribution. Name them, give them your surname, gets you started …
What else?
I did more than he. What he did, but more. Better. More thoughtfully. Where did he learn? My dad learned from his dad. Looking back on our results, proudly – like an artist’s retrospective on his portfolio, realizing we could have done better, done much more, differently – if we knew then, what we know now …
We knew what to do, didn’t we? We learned, thought, did. Never well enough. Still, our children grew up. Shone. Could have done so much more, done better.
Being a good dad? That’s entirely different territory. It was never about getting from them, but always about giving to them, for them …
written / published from Calgary, AB
morning walk with Gusta: 12C/54F, slight breeze, clouds but lots of blue to see – Gusta feeling better, me not so much – she romped and I trailed behind. Better now …
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