September 10, 2015
Why They Don't Call

After 20 years, I am re-reading "To Kill a Mockingbird". There's a scene in the book between Scout and Dill. Dill has run away and Scout wants to know why. 

"Didn't you build that boat like you wrote you were gonna?" "He just said he would. We never did." I raised up on my elbow facing Dill's out line. "It's no reason to run off..." "That wasn't it...they just wasn't interested in me...they stayed gone all the time, and when they were home, even, they'd get off in a room by themselves." "Dill, you ain't telling me right... "The thing is, what I'm tryin' to say is-they do get on a lot better without me...They ain't mean. They buy me everything I want, but it's now-you've-got-to-go-play-with-it. You've got a roomful of things. I-got-you-that-book-so-go-read-it." 

The mother had remarried and the son had taken a backseat to them. I got to tell you, I'm a 52-year-old man and when I read this I wanted to cry. Don't ignore your children. One day they're going to be out of the house and you're going to wonder why they never call. 

Brian 


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