so that happened...
Stopping at Jannetta's this morning to buy a Coke, I knocked my lunchbox against a tree, causing it to fly open and dump its contents on the ground. The glass jar I had the Tahini in smashed and splashed all over my Falafel. Eating my falafel and pita later I discovered tiny shards of glass mixed in. The rest of the pita went in the garbage.
Maxim: One is never more aware of one's insides than when one thinks one has eaten glass. Each tingle or pain is carefully attended to.
Extract whatever spiritual truths you will.
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Marnie has been sick. Hot forehead, low appetite, clingy. She has been grouchy and resisting medicine. Tonight after her bath I had to hold her arms while Karen syringed the cough syrup into her mouth. Marnie swallowed, then cried, then urped, and dumped the contents of her stomach into a bit of the bath towel Karen held under her mouth. I took the towel outside and shook it into the garden. Then I took a garden trowel and buried the assorted raisins, bread and string cheese under the dirt.
This is, I believe, the essence of fatherhood.
Maxim: One is never more aware of one's insides than when one thinks one has eaten glass. Each tingle or pain is carefully attended to.
Extract whatever spiritual truths you will.
***
Marnie has been sick. Hot forehead, low appetite, clingy. She has been grouchy and resisting medicine. Tonight after her bath I had to hold her arms while Karen syringed the cough syrup into her mouth. Marnie swallowed, then cried, then urped, and dumped the contents of her stomach into a bit of the bath towel Karen held under her mouth. I took the towel outside and shook it into the garden. Then I took a garden trowel and buried the assorted raisins, bread and string cheese under the dirt.
This is, I believe, the essence of fatherhood.