I have been a silent, lurking blog reader, until now. Why the sudden change to writing? Now I have a reason to blog.
My wife and I are Jospeh Campbell fans. Best known as the key mentor of George Lucas, Campbell was a student of myth and spirituality. Not only the religious variety of spirituality, but the organic human kind. Spirituality distilled from experiencing the mystery of life. Life is a mystery, and Campbell dedicated his work to exploring myths and religions to distill common themes of what it is to be human.
One mystery that we all experience is coming into the world, and our first understanding of the world is our mother. The mother is the bonding place for the infant: the place of origin, of nourishment, comfort, familiarity and security. So where does this leave the father? In Campbell's words: "he is not much more than a hairy, inadequate assistant", an outside observer of the primordial relationship between mother and child.
On December 8, 2006, after what my psychiatrist father called "an extraordinarily long adolescence", I became a father. And I observe the relationship between my wife and my son daily. Given the extra hours of waking I now have and my somewhat limited position as observer, I intend to chronicle my impressions and experience of parenting from the male perspective for our collective amusement.
I hope you enjoy these musings as much as I do in sharing them.
