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And They’re Gone …
My youngest daughter had to do her first semester at Georgetown at home on a laptop, but this morning, she left for D.C. to move into her apartment. My other two daughters have already left home. Things are different now. I really don’t remember my life before my daughters arrived. For 22 years, our house has been an explosion of blonde hair, pink bows, Barbie Dolls, athletic equipment, nail polish, multivariable calculus textbooks, stuffed animals, musical instruments, and endless wonderful chaos. Now it’s very quiet. They’re gone.
I knew they would leave at some point. That’s the whole idea, of course. Every Dad knows that his time with his daughters is brief and finite. And I’m so thankful for the time we had together. Every minute was wonderful – even the ones that weren’t, if that makes any sense.
We had a lot a great adventures together, like in the picture above from 2012; going fishing for bluegills in ponds back in the woods. And I’m so happy that they’re out there today, finding their own adventures now. Just like in the picture, they’ve got exploring to do. As it should be.
But I just can’t believe they’re gone.
I miss my little girls.
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My wife grew up on College Hill in Easton, a block from Lafayette (almost across the street from CHT – College Hill Tavern). Her whole family went to Lafayette (her great-great-great grandad or somebody helped start the school). It’s a great school.
You’d have to hit the traffic right…
I don’t know what you mean by having the right genetics. And having the right psychology is a function of the right values. If you have pushed out God out of your life, you most likely pushed out children. The blessing of children requires sacrifice that can only be understood within a religious mindset.
Your psychology is 50% to 60% genetic.
And your proof of that?
When any social scientist studies any trait in humans, 50-60% of that trait is genetic. This is often based on various twin studies but other research backs it up. We have decades this data from multiple continents and it always goes in one direction.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7147-genes-contribute-to-religious-inclination/
Her is another article about twin studies. These are merely two drops in an data that suggests that fifty to sixty percent of what we are in genetic. This is why I am so excited about genetic engineering.
So I was once an atheist and now I’m a devout believer, so my genes altered? I find such personality studies to be bogus.