Our Children

Melissa Harris-Perry just read this at the end of her show. It's a beautiful and meaningful meditation as we think about our children today.

On Children

      And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said,

      "Speak to us of Children." And he said: 

      Your children are not your children. 

      They are the sons and daughters

      of Life's longing for itself. 

      They come through you but not from you, 

      And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. 

      You may give them your love but not your thoughts. 

      For they have their own thoughts. 

      You may house their bodies but not their souls, 

      For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,

      which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. 

      You may strive to be like them,

      but seek not to make them like you. 

      For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. 

      You are the bows

      from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. 

      The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,

      and He bends you with His might that

      His arrows may go swift and far. 

      Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness; 

      For even as he loves the arrow that flies,

      so He loves also the bow that is stable.

On Children by Khalil Gibran.

Comments

[ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©]

Nice pome*, B.G.

* Some guy I'm reminded of from elementary school who spelled it that way as part of his home work.

He was big and dumb and a bully, but this was something he had worked on. Everybody made fun of him, and that was the end of that. Pretty sad, thinking about all these decades later.
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[blue girl]

:(

[ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©]

I know!

Regrets...we've had a few...
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[blue girl]

Something is going on with my computer. I can't watch videos on YouTube anymore. Did they just upgrade? Wonder what I need to upgrade?

[blue girl]

Altho I do know what you linked to, and I have to say, I've always loved that.

[scribbler50]

Thanks for that, BG, wise and beautiful words, terrible, terrible times.

[Jennifer]

Love Khalil...

[ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©]

Upgrayedd?

You probable have to upgrayedd your Adobe flash player, b.g.
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[zombie rotten mcdonald]

The new Macs come with flash disabled or hobbled. You may need to check flash settings.