I’m still thinking a lot lately about death, about what we leave behind, and how all of it weaves into this wild, beautiful thing we call dad life. Two poems keep surfacing in my mind for my own hypothetical funeral: John Donne’s Death Be Not Proud (read my reflection on it here) and Percy Bysshe… Continue reading Ozymandias: A Dad Poem, but (Again) Not Mine
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Random Musings #12
I’ve been sitting with these thoughts for several days now, trying hard to find the right words, but they slip through my head every time I try to pin them down. The pain and suffering of the parents who lost their children in the recent central Texas floods is a weight I can’t fully grasp,… Continue reading Random Musings #12