The moral upper hand

If you play the moral upper hand too much, your child will surrender her own faculty for it, in effect making you her moral calculator.  Rather than independence this leads to seeking another to take over the role when she moves on.

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Xtraord

You’re habitually mad because people don’t behave in more extraordinary ways to you… – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

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Marriage Vows – Oct. 2, 1999

Marriage vows between Kevin and Rebecca – Oct. 2, 1999 I vow to protect you from all enemies of your passion. When your eyes rush to the horizon, I vow to watch your footing. I vow not to let our days stack up like dishes, compact and uniform, but rather like well-chewed artichoke leaves flung…

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the self-worth vortex

avoid it.  too often any predicament or interaction at all starts whirling down it, with increasing force in the descent.  the times when dad can focus on a problem without this entering into it, he’s masterful, but 95% of the time he’s in the vortex, a maelstrom.  i don’t know what percentage of the time…

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Bah Humbunk Ay-YAH!

is, according to Hart, what the King exclaims while killing the monster to save the princess. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

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to a friend

your friendship has been constant over the years, as in a constant depth of about 2 inches

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