My daughters do not speak to me, so this blog is being written to give me a venue to communicate with them regardless of whether they ever care to read my messages or know that the blog is available to read.
“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” My guess is the falling tree makes a sound, but without anyone available to listen, it’s impossible to remember the experience of the tree falling and hard to describe the sound made by the falling tree. In essence, the falling tree is not memorialized, the only evidence of the fallen tree lies on the ground decaying.
While the philosophical question posed above is interesting, the purpose of this blog is to remember, to memorialize, to explain, to challenge, to clarify my love for my daughters and explain why I chose to separate, then divorce their mother. I shall not lie on the ground decaying. I will leave messages here to hopefully be read at another time.
I pray daily that their estrangement from me and my parents will end. I’m not sure hope is the proper word.
Messages To My Daughters 