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azurelunatic) wrote2003-06-22 03:58 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2003-06-22 03:58 pm
Different views in the database of the mind.
It seems that we all have different memories of our father.
N% remembers the brilliant, enthusiastic teacher, always up for trying out a new project and seeing what would happen, explaining science with great joy, encouraging us to do anything and everything.
Marah remembers the man who was too quick to anger, who spanked too hard and not for good reason, who could not hear the difference between children being children and children being bad.
Dagger remembers facing down the monster, and finding that it was no monster, but an overgrown spoiled brat who sulked off quietly now that his tantrum had been interrupted. "And he never did that again!" is the satisfying end to the story.
I see the man he is now, I suppose. Grandfather to the neighborhood (I use a loose definition of the word, in that the kids he grandfathers are the kids of the communities he participates in rather than the actual literal immediate surrounding area), ham radio buff, violin student, retiree, aging as gracefully as you can if sometimes you have two left feet. He reminds me of Aral Vorkosigan.
N% remembers the brilliant, enthusiastic teacher, always up for trying out a new project and seeing what would happen, explaining science with great joy, encouraging us to do anything and everything.
Marah remembers the man who was too quick to anger, who spanked too hard and not for good reason, who could not hear the difference between children being children and children being bad.
Dagger remembers facing down the monster, and finding that it was no monster, but an overgrown spoiled brat who sulked off quietly now that his tantrum had been interrupted. "And he never did that again!" is the satisfying end to the story.
I see the man he is now, I suppose. Grandfather to the neighborhood (I use a loose definition of the word, in that the kids he grandfathers are the kids of the communities he participates in rather than the actual literal immediate surrounding area), ham radio buff, violin student, retiree, aging as gracefully as you can if sometimes you have two left feet. He reminds me of Aral Vorkosigan.