Maddenation
What’s in a Name?
I’ve had this strange uneasy feeling ever since Sara was born, and I call people in my family by the wrong name much more often than before. In a spare moment of meditation the other day I think I started to grasp why. I think that when we had only two children, Patrick and Adriana, their names were somewhat like substitutions for “son” and “daughter,” analogous to my and Karina’s names “dad” and “mom.” Once Sara came along, there were two names for “daughter,” and I had to face more vividly the individuality of each of my children. Add to this that Sara is just now forming her personality with her laughs and extended arms and ways of crawling and such, and you get a surprisingly unnerving experience. I don’t know if I’ve quite put my finger on it, but having Sara has started to awaken me to lots of aspects of parenting that I hadn’t quite grasped in any meaningful way before. I hope to keep meditating on the repercussions.
Patrick • Observations • 12/06/04 • 1 comments
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Kathleen • 12/09/04 • 12:30 AM:I felt bad that no one had commented, so I wanted to.
Also, I thought that your thoughts were interesting.
I’d give it a B+. Flip it to a 45 and we can dance to it.
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