这是独立日。当我年轻的时候,这是炸毁东西,有点刺激的一天,也是烟花的短暂之美。年轻一点,现在是烧烤,家庭和思考属于一个国家意味着什么的一天。

我们度过了一个周末,被家人和朋友包围。艾玛(Emma)在第一年的7月4日。奇怪的是,我的母亲和婆婆(帕蒂的妈妈)现在都在移动。So this weekend was also one of saying good-bye to old houses, which is sad because so many memories get tied up in those places– saying good-bye to the bricks and mortar is easy, but knowing I won’t again sit on the deck, or walk in the roses, or see our carpentry is hard.

So maybe that poignancy led me to thinking about our fathers. I have never met Patty’s, and while I have one present father, I have one who still has not seen Emma. I was wondering if they are her grandfathers, or more like the distant relatives that I know only from a fading photo.

我现在觉得我永远是艾玛生活的一部分。今天,我想象她是30岁,没有见到她,没有见到她的孩子。我不能以这个缺席的角色来想象自己 - 也许是因为我自己的经验,或者由于我自己缺乏经验,我看不到我们被切断了。

那我们的父亲呢?不仅是帕蒂(Patty)和我的我,而且我们所有缺席的父亲。他们是因为我们还是因为自己而遥远?更重要的是,我无法理解他们与艾玛的距离。在我的生活中,没有什么比艾玛睡觉时更接近神的了。他们怎么能错过这些时刻?

我缺席的父亲不是一个坏人,我不怪他或母亲离婚。这些断断续续的关系,我们缺席的父亲,是一个不支持我们建立终身承诺的系统的产物。

就我本身而言,我的猜测是,我们对离婚都更加健康,更快乐 - 但我不明白缺席,遣散费和墙壁。我不明白我们的世界如何在这些裂痕中生存。

作为一名中学老师,我记得经常性的父母会议开始时,“我们正在经历艰难的时期……”。在我的咨询小组中,大多数(60%?)的学生经历了六年级和8年级的离婚。在国内和国际上,统计数字令人震惊。同样的旧消息。

有了两个月大的孩子,这对我来说又是新的。

我担心艾玛(Emma)的祖父和我本人是父亲,我担心作为一个社会,我们对独立感到困惑。我们已经说服自己,尤其是男人,独立意味着不需要任何人。这种独立很容易。没有真正的后果,我们的情感要塞背后是安全的,很容易剪掉弦。然而,没有自由,没有机会像我们自己更大的东西一样聚在一起。Bogart走进雾气,“三个小生命不构成豆类的山丘”之类的 - 它在屏幕上表现良好,但对我们最大的抱负留下了毫无意义的意义。

我们的社会充满了被束缚和决心不需要其他人的人所延续的切断关系的裂痕。我们已经成为一个由单亲父母,单身孩子,单身人士组成的社会,他们围绕度假烧烤庆祝独立日。

But this year, around the barbecue, I got to see people who love my daughter simply because she is a beautiful baby, and part of our family, and because we need one another. Today I got to see that there are other options — that it can be Interdependence Day. This does not mean our absent fathers with suddenly reappear –but that we can change the system.

I hope this is a year of extending relationships, and that next year I will watch the fireworks and see the glimmering motes as the connections we have built.

– Josh

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