A deep and mellow moment

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Iggy McSnurd" 
<CoyotesChild at c...> wrote:
> Iggy here:
> 
> I've started listening to a lot of classic jazz lately (I've always
> liked it, but never really took the time to really get *into* 
it...) and
> just had an interesting moment...
> 
> I was laying here listening to Louie Armstrong sing "What a 
Wonderful
> World" and I looked over at my daughter who was happily sitting on 
the
> bed next to me (eating potato chips and watching "Rugrats").  She 
looked
> back at me, and I suddenly saw in her eyes how much of me she 
is... and
> that she *is* my future, my legacy, and just how valuable she is 
to me
> on more than just a family and emotional level... but also on that
> spiritual level.
> 
> I think I've just come a lot closer to truly understanding 
fatherhood
> and what it means on a higher level than I've understood it on 
before.
> 
> Maybe you have to be a parent to understand that... you probably
> do...but I hope you all have (or have had) at least one of those 
moments
> in your life... where you fully understand something that's much 
greater
> than you in this world, and transcends everything else.
> 
> 
> Iggy McSnurd
> 
> 
 Yes, just today, I had something just like that! After a "series of 
unfortunate events" (related to weather and vehicles, not L. Snicket)
I sat down at the end of the day with my 5 year old son and 7 year 
old daughter. I was just taking a breather before trying to figure 
out what to put on the dinner table. As I sat there, my son reached 
over and held my hand. He wasn't really even paying attention to me. 
I just happened to be there, so he picked up my hand. Suddenly, all 
my frustrations drained away. I reached over and joined hands with 
my daughter too. There is something about holding a child that makes 
me feel such a sense of my own (and their) mortality, and yet at the 
same time feel how important that moment is. Without getting too 
mushy, dinner was an hour later then normal, and the menu was 
nothing better than grilled cheese and soup!

MMcK.