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Losing things, Part 1: Social Security
Categories: FathermindfulnessProblemsDrink from the cup as if it’s already broken. — Zen Buddhist Lately I’ve been losing a lot of things. I could write forever about losing things. I may. A month ago...
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Losing things, Part 2: Rites of passage
Categories: FathermindfulnessProblemsMy father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. — Jim Valvano Lately things have gotten serious between me and Nick. He...
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Losing things, Part 3: Stories
Categories: Child-developmentFatherhoodmindfulnessParentingWhen one has not had a good father, one must create one. –Friedrich Nietzsche I often wonder why I didn’t get into more trouble when I was a...
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The Prince of Wales test
Categories: mindfulnessBut you must be sure that your imagination and love are behind it, that you are not working just from grim resolution, i.e., to make money or impress people. – Brenda Ueland In...
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Walking the dog, Part 1: The Hay Wain
Categories: mindfulnessWildnessMr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body. – James Joyce, Dubliners I walked the dog this morning. The painting to the right isn’t where I walked him. The painting...
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Breathing for Two
Categories: mindfulnessHave a child. Plant a tree. Write a book. — the Talmud Every so often here I restate my hare-brained intention to make a living as a writer. So it’s with big feelings that I...
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Walking the dog, Part 2: Map and territory
Categories: mindfulnessWhat you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call here and now. You are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that the wave is something that...
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Wolf Pascoe Word Shop
Categories: WritingDo a thing for the love you bring to it, not for the love it will bring to you. I have an announcement I’ve been planning to make for a while. Beginning today, the posting schedule...
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Down Our Way
Categories: UncategorizedThere are places I remember All my life though some have changed Some forever, not for better Some have gone and some remain — Lennon/McCartney . Some years ago Nick asked me...
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Easy peasy lemon squeezy
Categories: UncategorizedMr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people’s business. Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good...
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Thomas Lincoln and the video game problem
Categories: Child-developmentDoubtsFatherhoodmindfulnessParenting“If we could meet now, it is doubtful whether it would not be more painful than pleasant.” — Abraham Lincoln, speaking about his father...
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The grove of academe
Categories: DoubtsProblemsSchoolThis is the day the Lord hath made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. — Psalms, 118:24 “I think I want to stay in town for middle school,” Nick said the other day. “I...
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You have to want to be kind
Categories: BlessingmindfulnessProblemsNo act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. — Aesop Weeks ago, the explosions at the Boston Marathon. Like everyone, I was sick, angry, numb. I felt...
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Flying Solo
Categories: Child-developmentFatherhoodParentingSchoolThis week I drove Nick to school, piled his stuff bag into the back of a van filled with kids, and waved goodbye as they drove off. Six hours...
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The Angel of sycamores
Categories: BlessingPoemsWildnessTHERE was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a...
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Doing it right
Categories: MenmindfulnessTo every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven . . . A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away . . . –...
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Friends who disappear
Categories: DoubtsmindfulnessParentingSchoolI’m still thrashing about doing things right. The second year Nick was at Fern Hill he made his first friend—call him Zoe. Nick was four, Zoe half a year...
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Music lesson
Categories: DoubtsFatherhoodParentingPlayNick and I went down to McCabes the other day. McCabes is a local landmark, a musician hangout and store that has sold guitars, banjos, mandolins, fiddles, and...
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The joy of it
Categories: WildnessWritingThe soul is here for its own joy. — Robert Bly Today marks Just Add Father’s 200th post. When I began here three years ago, I had no idea what I was doing, just a vague...
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Groundhog Day revisited
Categories: BlessingDoubtsmindfulnessPhil: What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered? Ralph: That about sums it up for me. –...
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