This story shall the good man teach his son
August 8, 2023 12:51 PM Subscribe
Today 8/8 is Father’s Day in Taiwan. St Crispin’s Day is not until 25th October but here’s a somewhat rambling reflection All things are ready, if our minds be so by The Reluctant Carer on what it takes to care for an aged, frail, previously absent [merchant seaman] father.
The point, for all the warlike connotations of that speech is that your brother can be anyone – and so is everyone your brother. “This did the good man teach his son”, and I never even realised it was happening. For all they cannot do, words somehow did all that, and then did all this too. cw: blood, bathroom. Why not give the reading a heroic soundtrack?
The cited blog overlaps with an anonymous book The Reluctant Carer (2022) documenting (with laconic hilarity, stoic grit and many comms fails) how a 40-something London media person returned to the provinces to look after his parents and himself and stayed for nearly two years. The System is failing, but carers are caring: some for money, some from duty and some for love. Agincourt was all over in a day but caring continues for years. Eventually his father died Good Grief and R. Carer’s life continued.
The cited blog overlaps with an anonymous book The Reluctant Carer (2022) documenting (with laconic hilarity, stoic grit and many comms fails) how a 40-something London media person returned to the provinces to look after his parents and himself and stayed for nearly two years. The System is failing, but carers are caring: some for money, some from duty and some for love. Agincourt was all over in a day but caring continues for years. Eventually his father died Good Grief and R. Carer’s life continued.
I am touched that this scene and this music, which I love so and find stirring and exciting, speaks so differently to this man in this way. Astonishing.
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I look at the faces of family and friends, and so many of them are getting older. I suppose I am, too, and someone must be noticing it in me. All of us will help someone, and then need help in our turn. I hope I can provide it -- and accept it -- gracefully.
posted by wenestvedt at 1:15 PM on August 8, 2023 [3 favorites]