Thanks, Frank, for your wise words — echoing some of the same themes contained in your "Letter to Lucy" e-book. We are roughly the same age, and I know how hard-won some of that wisdom is. I joke with my wife of 45+ years that I was only a half-baked human for the first 35 of those years.
I agree with what you say, but it saddens me as well, as a woman who suffered infertility, and whose marriage did not outlast my husband's infidelities and drug addiction. I very much wish I had had children in my fertile years, even though it would have meant single parenthood. Many of us were and are unable to find suitable partners at the right time.
I ran into something odd this weekend. There is a Facebook group called the "Antinatalist Homeland." It is apparently a group that's obsessed with finding a place that isn't too expensive where people don't have babies. So they look for cities where the government funds abortion. Apparently New Orleans has funded some abortions, but the leader of the group seems to think that's not a good place because it's too hot. He also seemed to say he supported Israel's occupation of Gaza because it would mean Gazans would be able to have abortions. For him, abortion and low birth rates are the things of paramount importance in the world. It's okay to kill Gazans as long as you don't make them carry babies to term.
On the importance of human connections - I try to avoid people who are actively trying to kill me. That is why I will NEVER set foot in a Catholic Church again and picket the bishops.
What rough beast, its hour come round at last... slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”
Thanks, Frank, for your wise words — echoing some of the same themes contained in your "Letter to Lucy" e-book. We are roughly the same age, and I know how hard-won some of that wisdom is. I joke with my wife of 45+ years that I was only a half-baked human for the first 35 of those years.
I agree with what you say, but it saddens me as well, as a woman who suffered infertility, and whose marriage did not outlast my husband's infidelities and drug addiction. I very much wish I had had children in my fertile years, even though it would have meant single parenthood. Many of us were and are unable to find suitable partners at the right time.
Thank you, Frank. Some wise and life-changing advice and insight about the primacy of relationships.
I ran into something odd this weekend. There is a Facebook group called the "Antinatalist Homeland." It is apparently a group that's obsessed with finding a place that isn't too expensive where people don't have babies. So they look for cities where the government funds abortion. Apparently New Orleans has funded some abortions, but the leader of the group seems to think that's not a good place because it's too hot. He also seemed to say he supported Israel's occupation of Gaza because it would mean Gazans would be able to have abortions. For him, abortion and low birth rates are the things of paramount importance in the world. It's okay to kill Gazans as long as you don't make them carry babies to term.
On the importance of human connections - I try to avoid people who are actively trying to kill me. That is why I will NEVER set foot in a Catholic Church again and picket the bishops.