Fatherly
What I want for my kids is to experience love in its waxing and waning phases. I want them to overcome challenges with intelligence and grace. I want them to adventure through their hearts and minds, uncovering more exquisite treasure within them at every turn. I want them to live in lifelong curiosity, to hunger for knowledge, to thirst for experience. I want them to be rooted in empathy and compassion for the world around them. I want them to be kind and generous, full of humanity. I want them to want to make a palpable difference to the lives they cross. I want them to believe in who they are and the power of their tiniest contributions. I want them to be confident. I want them to meet fear often, and to find courage on occasion, because that means they’re working outside constant comfort and security. I want them to explode with ideas and creativity, to explore, to experiment with whatever they can get their hands and minds on. I want them to take risks, to fall, to fail and to learn what it is to stand up again with scrapes on their knees and scars on their hearts. I want them to believe in the healing power of ‘again’ or ‘next time’. I want my kids to be secure enough in themselves to go hunting when they’re hungry and to be big enough to share the catch when they make it.
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