Father’s Day
June 15th, 2025 by G.
“Long periods of peace foster certain optical illusions: one is the conviction that the inviolability of the home is grounded in the constitution, which should guarantee it. In reality, it is grounded in the family father, who, sons at his side, fills the doorway with an axe in his hand.”
-Ernst Junger.
I have a new son-in-law and he and my daughter have had their first baby. I see the burden he feels to provide for his family and make it possible for my daughter to raise their child, and for him to also. It is almost crushing him but he staggers on. My heart goes out to him.
John Mansfield
June 16, 2025
My heart also goes out to the younger adults, and even those approaching forty. The world they are working with is less supportive than the one I knew as a younger man.
“make it possible for my daughter to raise their child, and for him to also”
So properly phrased.