For Father's Day: fight family separation

Aldo Leopold's "shack" a gift to his family, and the world

Photo by J. Harrington

Children, please read this and help where you can, in honor of your fathers.

Here’s How You Can Help Fight Family Separation at the Border

Lawyers, translators, donations, protest.

Fathers, please read this and help where you can, for the sake of your children and every child.

Here’s How You Can Help Fight Family Separation at the Border

Lawyers, translators, donations, protest.

Happy Father's Day! Remember, only we can make a better world for all of us. This morning's thunderstorms might make today's poem a seasonal misfit but it wonderfully captures the distinction between a child and a man. Real men know how to love.

Those Winter Sundays

Robert Hayden, 1913- 1980

Sundays too my father got up early 
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, 
then with cracked hands that ached 
from labor in the weekday weather made 
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. 

I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. 
When the rooms were warm, he’d call, 
and slowly I would rise and dress, 
fearing the chronic angers of that house, 

Speaking indifferently to him, 
who had driven out the cold 
and polished my good shoes as well. 
What did I know, what did I know 
of love’s austere and lonely offices? 

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