OK. With Father’s Day coming up, I have a story to share.
I took a really great class about 10 years ago, from someone who’d done her PhD at the Harvard Business School. Sitting next to me was a younger woman, who was in the first trimester of her pregnancy. We talked a lot.
We talked about parenting and kids. I showed her pictures of my daughters. She fixated on a picture one of them. And then she looked at me. Then she looked back at the picture, and then again back at me.
Finally, with a puzzled look on her face, she turned to me and said, “Your wife must be very beautiful.”
Whether you’re expecting your first child or your kids are grown and on their own, being a dad is a new experience. When my wife was pregnant, we decided to have a homebirth. We hired a doula and two midwives. I won’t tell you how much it cost. According to them and other experts, labor was going to last 10-12 hours. My son had other plans. My wife’s labor was so short that the only other person in the room when he was born was – guess who? – me. After nine months of preparing to support my wife in the birth of my first child, there I was, with no medical training, serving as midwife, doula, and doctor. I fought off the strong desire to run out of the room as fast as possible. When I caught Joaquin, I experienced pure exhilaration and love. “:
See you later
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IN SEARCH OF FATHERHOOD
I became acquainted with Author Kevin Renner’s writings through his monthly columns in The Oregonian newspaper. These columns moved me to tears, which then inspired me to read In Search of Fatherhood. Thank you to all the brave women who shared their deeply personal stories…..you provided a light of sunshine and hope in my own journey of healing. I felt a profound connection with each of you. I am grateful for the wisdom each of you shared on how you survived your childhoods, including the “life lessons and fatherly advice” your fathers shared with you about how to maneuver through the challenging events that this universe presents to each of us. You filled a void in me because I can not recall my parents sharing advice to me, and now this book provides that for me too. This book is filled with so much hope, wisdom, inspiration, survival, and a connection to such spirited women. I found myself reading this book again and again, and finding new connections with these courageous women again and again. Thank you Author Kevin Renner for writing this wonderful book about the incredibly important relationship between fathers and daughters.