Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bush was born intelligent, healthy, handsome, tastefully wealthy, with the best social and school connections and a lust for adventure, to a mother and father who taught him the virtue of public service. So he may have been born closer to home plate than even Hightower suggested...
...given the approaching holiday, am I thinking of fathers and their unreachable, unfathomable greatness? Fathers and sons; father knows best; life with father. Farther and farther away they grow, not only when they die and are sunk for good but in life too. Big Daddy. Daddy Long Legs. For Father's Day, to be on the safe side, better order extra extra large...
When a man becomes a father, he is suddenly inflated to the size of the Sta-Puf Marshmallow Man in Ghostbusters. His shoes don't fit; his hatband leaves a mark. He can barely see his feet, at which his children gather, look up and can barely see his head. And the weight! I have tried to dredge my father from his ocean floor for nearly 25 years, since he went down, at the fairly young age of 67. In a decade or so, I will be older that he is, or was, yet I come no closer to reaching...
...With my father and me, it was World War III (All-Nukes) much of the time, yet even in more serene relationships, everything gets overblown. Children strain to get their arms around their father's thighs. Too thick, too strong. Today my boys can beat me in arm wrestling without half trying. My daughter can outrun me in a race; no sweat. But they do not savor these victories. I am the father who should not be conquered. One afternoon when I was 14, my father, once a powerful and muscular swimmer, ran out of breath as we swam...
...course, he could never be anything but monumental. It is the fate of fathers to be enormous, and the responsibility as well. One must be careful not to abuse one's stature, not to be harsh, not to bully, not to crush. God the Father must have known something of that self-governing caution when he realized that he could never pick on anyone his own size...