Becoming B on Nostr: "A father is one whose perspective and knowledge are rooted in the underworld and ...
"A father is one whose perspective and knowledge are rooted in the underworld and tied to the forefathers, those who have gone before and have created the culture that the father now takes into his hands. A father’s wisdom and moral sensibility find their direction from voices that are not now in life. His initiators are both those literal fathers who have created culture and his own deepest reflections." ~ Thomas Moore
6 AM. I'm on my second burning of wood. It's 25 degrees out there. During my run last night the sky was full of stars. I didn't see the moon.
It was a long day on the mail trail, 12 hours. We were short people, so there was no help to deliver Amazon packages. All in all it went smoothly though. I am starting to internalize the route. In other words, things are starting to fall into place. That usually happens for me after the first week of freak out learning a new route.
The quote to start out this piece I take seriously. There's the job I perform to help pay the bills, then there's fatherhood. Fatherhood connects me to the generations that came before me, and that will come after.
The mail route not so much. I think of hundreds of thousands of years when I think of fatherhood. When it comes to delivering mail maybe a hundred. We've only been delivering mail here for a few hundred years.
Fatherhood is part of the long game. The survival of our species and the habitat that gave birth to it and countless others.
That's enough riffing for now. I'm happy with it. We live in a flat, fast culture. One guy going deep on his phone for 15 minutes in front of a fire ain't going to hurt anything. I hope it adds something. :-)
Off to the mail trail.
Fire #116
1.28.25
6 AM. I'm on my second burning of wood. It's 25 degrees out there. During my run last night the sky was full of stars. I didn't see the moon.
It was a long day on the mail trail, 12 hours. We were short people, so there was no help to deliver Amazon packages. All in all it went smoothly though. I am starting to internalize the route. In other words, things are starting to fall into place. That usually happens for me after the first week of freak out learning a new route.
The quote to start out this piece I take seriously. There's the job I perform to help pay the bills, then there's fatherhood. Fatherhood connects me to the generations that came before me, and that will come after.
The mail route not so much. I think of hundreds of thousands of years when I think of fatherhood. When it comes to delivering mail maybe a hundred. We've only been delivering mail here for a few hundred years.
Fatherhood is part of the long game. The survival of our species and the habitat that gave birth to it and countless others.
That's enough riffing for now. I'm happy with it. We live in a flat, fast culture. One guy going deep on his phone for 15 minutes in front of a fire ain't going to hurt anything. I hope it adds something. :-)
Off to the mail trail.
Fire #116
1.28.25