Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of July 17, 2022
• Is that my feet or the blue cheese on the table I smell?
• I’m not only concerned about how having a second kid will affect me. In fact, I’m not concerned about that at all. I welcome it. I’m excited to see how this new edition changes the family to completion. But I am concerned about how it’ll affect the older kid. And I think it’ll affect him much more me or my wife. This new kid moving into our home is halving his world—at best. How is he going to change? For good or evil? Likely somewhere between. But I’m nervous for him. I know he’s already fearing the massive changes coming his way because we’ve talked about it. I want to be sure I’m doing the right things so these changes are good for him.
• Parenthood is, by far, the trippiest, mind bending, and just straight up weirdest thing I’ve ever experienced.
• Of course, I can’t predict the future, but I can say with confidence that the America my boys will grow up in will be a stark difference from the one I grew up in. My childhood America was a facade of hope and riches. But it felt good. The one here for my kids is fraught, aflame, flooded, broke, demented, and barely alive. I wish my boys luck.
• Needed: More time, more booze, more quiet.
• The hardest part of waiting is all the waiting.
