Letters to the Editor
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A Touch of Care
The Letter today is very carefully written. Every word is written to fit into every sentence, which fits into every paragraphs, which all combined to render really any response ineffective. No offense Cary.
What an irony it is that those who are in the best position to have children: the planners, the careful, run out of time.
I still have time, and I am not an especially good planner. Maybe that means I don't have much to say.
I can say for myself that my step-father is a wonderful person. I model myself after him in every way (even in ways I wish I did not!) because he has always been so careful and reasoned with me, and in his life. I have a deep and abiding respect for him.
It is true that we may live on, when we die, through our genetic children. However, I really believe that we live on in a greater way by touching those close to us, by impregnating (if you'll forgive the word) others with a spirit which is in turn passed on to others around us.
Just so, I am a child of my step-father's soul. And my children, the children of my soul, however they may come to be my children, will come to also be in some way the children of my step-father's soul; his soul will be magnified for the way he has loved me, and been so respectable an example in my life, by the way I will love them, and be a respectable example in their lives.
It is funny that you do not want to adopt, because to me, that is about the most noble and wonderful thing a person can do. It is certainly something I hope to do in my life.
Onward.