Filler
Posted on October 7, 2008
I mentioned to Lori last night that I had a blog on this site. She seemed surprised and interested. I guess she’ll come on by for a peek. So, I’d better start filling it with content.
I don’t tell enough people often enough how wonderful my wife is.
I often think of that Bernard Shaw play Man and Superman, the monologue about artists:
“The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot… sooner than work at anything but his art. …He steals the mother’s milk and blackens it to make printers’ ink to scoff at her and glorify ideal women with. …Since marriage began, the great artist has been known as a bad husband. But he is worse: he is a child-robber, a bloodsucker, a hypocrite, and a cheat. Perish the race and wither a thousand women if only the sacrifice of them enable him to act Hamlet better, to paint a finer picture, to write a deeper poem, a greater play, a profounder philosophy! …Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman. Which shall use up the other? that is the issue between them. And it is all the deadlier because, in your romanticist cant, they love one another.”
Not only does she put up with my artistic distemper; she manages the house, finances, cooks, organizes our social calendar, educates the children, and freelances as a writer. She’s a competent ‘pr-edit-or’ (producer, shooter, editor), she’s finishing grad school in education (with the certifications), and she’s a loyal ally.
I’m inspired by her. She’s my hero.
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