Brainspill

There are four vital things Fathers need to provide for their children.
Genesis 27:26-29 demonstrates them as…

Touch: Meaningful touch conveys acceptance and love. Not many mal-adjusted people in the world had fathers who hugged them frequently.

Talk: If you don’t tell your children they are talented and beautiful, some scumbag will. Our words are like seeds planted in the hearts of our children. Frequently tell a child they are smart and beautiful, and they will aspire to be. Do not, and what then do they have to work toward?

Time: Faith is personal. Instilling it in children takes demonstration, not just instruction. Believable demonstration (proof) takes time – lots of it. Our children see we’re busy: our time has value. Giving them our time abundantly shows them they have more value than other things in our lives.

Talents: It’s important for fathers to be able to recognize our childrens’ talents and help develop them. Artists, athletes, and academics are all more effective when their parents encouraged them to do things they were good at as children.

I let my last domain lapse. Didn’t care for it anymore, didn’t want to be associated with its name. It was great while I was mudding all the time and liked going by the nonsense pseudonym. But I’m past that now, don’t mud anymore, don’t want to point professional colleagues at designs hosted on the goofy domain name anymore.

I was once offered money for it. Hah. Money, for that dumb name. I should’ve taken it, but my pride, freshly swollen at the offer, just couldn’t let go of it.

So here’s a new site. A new blog system, a new email address, a new start. Props to Registerfly.com and BGFweb.com for being quick to make it happen. Anti-Props to Paypal for taking 3 days to process a fund transfer that came out of my bank account on the first day.

Let’s see how this goes.

Surpassed on the way home from work today. I noticed because I like sequences you only pass one in a while, on the odometer. It’s juvenile, like making a wish at 12:34 (I don’t). But it makes me smile at my accomplished car.