I’m recovering–if barely–from a haze of shuttling folks back and forth to practices and trying to find within myself this brief window of peace and writing happiness. I knew the day was long when, sometime around 3 PM I found myself on the couch, legs draped over the armrest and hands adjacent to a glass of wine. In the distance I could hear the boys spiraling up the bouncy house and bickering about which song to pipe in as their ‘entrance music’. A moment later it was 4 PM and I was still in that same spot, though slightly more rested and less aware. Such are the hot AZ days, and I have many more to come this summer.
Everything in my life seems to build towards Saturday. Though I often try to argue otherwise, my life seems geared towards the three little boys and their sporting lives. I’m a soccer dad. A football dad too it seems, and a basketball dad in the summers. All of it serves as wakeup call about the priorities I’ve chosen for my life. At some point we are all just slaves to the advancement of our children, and when they are gone it may feel too late to advance ourselves.
Some Thoughts:
- Meanwhile back in 1822, Liberia’s colonization was starting to take place. Boston was finally incorporated as a city, and the American Indian Society got off the ground. Independent acts to be sure, but there is a thread here of a founding of places–new places and organizations–built on the idea that something new can be made and be reflective of the kind of place people want for themselves as an ideal.
- If a math teacher says 2 + 2 = 4 and someone says, I’m skeptical of that being a legitimate equation, people view the skeptic as crazy. If a rising chorus of scientists across the globe point to climate change and someone says, I’m skeptical of that being a legitimate phenomenon, people still say, ‘he has a point there.’
- Mayweather v. PacMan was not great. Decent, but not great.
- With the cat dragging in so much stuff every night I am about to begin locking things down for the evenings again. It is a drag for the dog, who will need to be kenneled, but it keeps the house a little more bug free.