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When parents talk about having a child who is ill or struggling, nonparents often take the wrong message. They think, Thank God I was spared all that pain. If I can’t order up the precise specifications for my child, the condition in which he emerges, the choices he’ll make, if I can’t be assured that he’ll skirt the dangers that await him, maybe it’s better not to have children at all.
Those of us who know the airless terror of the 10 steps between the second you first glimpse your child’s surgeon through the glass doors and the moment he’s standing in front of you, delivering the verdict—we don’t think this way. Each time one of ours is ill or in pain, we think, Thank God I am here for him.
Source: Abigail Shrier, The Free Press
Posted: 2025 Oct 10Music of the Week
Our politics probably vary, but I expect that we all hope for the hostages to come home, for all the killing to stop, and for a better life for all people in the region.
Photo Memory of the Week
Go, Blue Jays!
Blog Memory of the Week
Category Archives: Photos of Flora
Sunflowers, Petersfield MB
Footwear matters. Continue reading
Black-eyed Susans at Sunrise, Lake Clear
Once you’re up, you might as well look around. Continue reading
Wood, Iceland
Textures of Icelandic wood. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Photos of Built Stuff, Photos of Flora
Tagged Buildings, Trees
8 Comments
A Study in Beige
Reconsidering the range of insipid, light brown shades. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Photos of Fauna, Photos of Flora
Tagged Birds, Other Plants
13 Comments
Trilliums (Trillii?)
Mysteries of the trillii. Continue reading
Gift from Vancouver
A side benefit of Confederation. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Photos of Flora, Through Canada
Tagged Flowers, Other Plants, Trees
4 Comments
Taking Another Look
More than met the eye the first time at this meeting place of tree and bridge. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Photos of Built Stuff, Photos of Flora
Tagged Bridges, Trees
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Worst. Tree. Ever.
Pretty. Pretty smelly. Continue reading
Flowering Crabapple Trees, Lexington VA
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Photos of Flora, Photos of Landscapes
Tagged Flowers, Trees
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