Sibling love
You don’t choose your family.
They are God’s gift to you,
as you are to them.
~Desmond Tutu
I’m loving my kids today and trying to look past the fact that they were pushing each other’s buttons tonight. They are both tired at the end of a big week. As they screamed and fought over such little things, I had to smile knowing that in life they will each be the other’s biggest ally. By the end of the night, they were back to being sweet to one another. Each of them were cuddled up in my lap as we said goodnight. They shared a cute hug and kiss… the calm before the storm when they’ll be back at it again tomorrow.
Sibling relationships - and 80 percent of Americans have at least one - outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust. ~Erica E. Goode, “The Secret World of Siblings,” U.S. News & World Report, 10 January 1994
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In Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town, the central character dies an early death. Emily is given the chance to revisit a day of her life and is advised by those in the afterlife to pick an ordinary day, warning her that she might be overcome otherwise. Still, Emily is overwhelmed with emotion as she recognizes how wonderful the everyday details of her existence were. Her daily routine takes on new significance now that it is gone. Through her tears, she asks:
Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it– every, every minute?
With this blog, I am trying to fully “realize” my life by documenting the things that I love. I want to appreciate and examine my past and present, as well as plan actively for the future.
I hope to accentuate the positive in my life and in the world around me, with the hope that by focusing on the positive, I will draw more positive elements into my life. Or, at least, realize all of the blessings that I do have.
Bob, the author of this blog, is a 33 year old husband, father, son, teacher, Christian, and liberal.
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