1000 Rounds

So children change your life?

Indeed.

I find myself wondering where this train of thought comes from.

I know that I find it hard now to watch scenes where children grieve.

The only time I've cried in 12 years was when the son of a dead friend broke down at the funeral. I cried while seeing my own son in his eyes.

I guess down there somewhere is the fear that a child's grief may be too much for them. Could I ease that pain? Should I?

Death and unfinished business.
Things left undone.
Things just left...for dead.

So having children has deepened me in that way. I feel for their loss.

...as I write this my son Casey enters the room to tell me of the show he just watched about elephants and how one baby elephant witnessed the death of her mother and never recovered...later to be shot dead after attacking her circus family. He tells me that they are highly emotional creatures...it took over 1000 rounds to put her down...