Life is amazing. I have a 2-year-old (almost 3) son and coming home to him lifts my spirits beyond what I could have ever imagined. Most of the day I’m in the trenches of design and code, and the drive home is really a decompression chamber for all the technical-brain-lock. When I get home and see his happy little face (or fussy-fuss depending on which side of his toddler bed he woke up on after naptime), nothing else matters.
He’s learning his numbers and alphabet, and essentially all I’m doing is learning more complex versions of the same. It’s actually pretty funny. Web development is a lot of language+logic+creativity, and I’m sure he gets just as excited when he can recognize the letter J as I do when I learn a new programming concept or design method. It psyches me up to think about that.
Both my wife and I have been anticipating this coming election with palpable excitement. We’ve felt the economic and occupational instabilities, while making choices that will ultimately keep our little man healthy and happy. We’ve seen the ravages of unchecked, unwieldy power in the White House tear apart not only our own country, but other nations in our global community. Hopefully, this war machine presidency is finally at an end. The death tolls in Iraq are ridiculous. Too many people suffering from poverty and injustice let alone the killing factor. Past, present, future – we are permanently marred. There is a lot of darkness in our world.
Then there’s my little boy. I am so thankful to be able to come home to him every day. So many parents have lost that ability through war or poverty, or some other horrible family severing event. If love covers a multitude of sins, even those of such epic proportions as our country has committed, than we have hope. Reaching into our souls and pockets in this country to help this world reach it’s potential in hope and love should be our purpose. Culturally, we have succeeded and are still succeeding in so many ways. Now is the time to sew our glorious allowances with responsibility to make this world a better place – forever.
We need to end our predatory, destructive behaviors and get back to the basics. Get back to where we belong; to love, peace and creativity. And learning like a 2 year old.
