Asakiyume mita

Oh, claiming him as my friend is not hubris, but "I think you would like this thing that I wrote" sometimes still feels like hubris with some of my friends even though they are my friends. If that makes sense.

As for TR.

My parents have friends with two young daughters, one of whom (J) needed extra after-school help with her reading. She was 7. And one day K, the father, went to pick up the earlier-departing child and found both of them waiting to go home. "J, what's going on?" he said. "I told them I had to go home now," said J. "I told them our family had to celebrate Teddy Roosevelt's birthday." And her dad said, "Go back in there and do your after school reading help!"

Which, I said when I heard this, was the difference between her dad and my dad, because my dad? would totally have made me read up on how to celebrate Teddy Roosevelt's birthday. Which it actually was; the kid had that part right. But then we would have celebrated it, as a family.

So we got to talking about how to celebrate TR's birthday, and now when the weather and our healths permit, we go to a public park with a very large hill and charge up it. It's TR's birthday, but I think mostly what we're honoring is my father's style of parenting.