The Road / Cormac McCarthy

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
You forget some things, don't you?
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong." Joseph Chilton Pearce

"If you press me to tell why I loved him, I feel that this cannot be expressed,
except by answering: Because it was he, because it was I."
Michel de Montaigne, "Of Friendship"

Monday, July 26, 2010

Council of Dads

I believe my daughters will have plenty of resources in their lives. They’ll have loving families. They’ll have welcoming homes. They’ll have each other. But they may not have me. They may not have their dad.

Will you help be their dad? 
--Bruce Feiler, Council of Dads

I came across this excerpt quite fortuitously. I was reading an article about the modern trend of married couples sleeping in separate beds by Bruce Feiler on the New York Times. At the end, it said that Feiler was diagnosed with cancer in 2008 and asked six important men to be surrogate dads to his daughters, would I want to read an excerpt from his book? Of course--hence this lovely letter to his six friends. 

After nine months since his diagnosis, Feiler has been cancer-free, wrote the above New York Times article just a couple days ago, and is an affectionate dad to his two daughters. 


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