Comments on: (This is the way the week ends) Not with a bong but a diaper

By: Vikki

Vikki — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:48:45 +0000

Balance is a tricky thing and, in our house, sanity is in short supply. It gets easier at some point, doesn’t it? Anyone? Anyone?

By: LesbianDad

LesbianDad — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:07:13 +0000

L,D!, I don’t know how you do it. Really. After just three solo weeks I don’t know how you, or every other full-time primary caregiver parent does it. And stay sane. (To which I might imagine you saying, “Who said anybody was sane?” To which I don’t think I’d have a response.)

By: LookyDaddy

LookyDaddy — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:28:21 +0000

Well said.

By: LesbianDad

LesbianDad — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 03:24:34 +0000

Thank you, annz. In all truthfulness it’s a well-intentioned Joan Baez paraphrase. But her talk at the Berkeley campus following that tour (documented in the 1982 PBS film There But for Fortune) was hugely influential upon my sense of life mission. I hope all other youngster college-age folks have access to similarly inspirational folks at just the right moment.

And thank you for appreciating the pun. For reasons I can’t explain, these lines from “Hollow Men” just keep coming back to me at the close of just about everything. Maybe one day it’ll be a bang and then I’ll be cured. But this riff on them takes the prize as the most mystifying and obscure post title, and you don’t even want to know how many sentences were dreamt up and then scrapped in an attempt to lend it even a modicum of relevance (I have to search back many decades to even locate a bong anecdote, despite the accute humor value of the object). Obviously I gave up and just left it there, testiment to the Dada-ist state that three weeks of over-full time kid care can do to even the best-intentioned.

By: annz

annz — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 19:34:55 +0000

Great post - love the Joan Baez quote.

And you outdid yourself with that groaner of a title!