Father's Day Place Holder Post...
Yeah... so I had planned to write an kickass Father's Day Post about Dyak fruit bats, male lactation, and paternal care. I still plan to write that post, naturally, but this morning I woke up motivated to do something else. Instead I made this video for my Dad. I finally had the fortitude since he passed away in 2008. June's tough for me because his birthday, Father's Day, and his death day are all this month. So forgive me this self-indulgent posting and I promise to deliver the sciencie-science next time.
Happy Father's Day to all the fathers, step-fathers, and single moms doing double duty.
Oh and since he said it a MILLION times better than I, or anyone else, ever could: here is Kahlil Gibran's poem "On Children" from The Prophet (it also explains brother Nate's and my tattoos).
And short story short- my Dad was pretty much the awesomest.
Jim Hinde, veteran, folksinger, Dad
Oh and since he said it a MILLION times better than I, or anyone else, ever could: here is Kahlil Gibran's poem "On Children" from The Prophet (it also explains brother Nate's and my tattoos).
On Children by Kahlil Gibran
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.
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