Not Entirely Untrue

Emotional rocks. This idea is kind of funny, but ties into things I was thinking about this weekend at my friend's wedding (which was a defacto college reunion).

When one is busy and consumed in career-mode, it is healthy, and indeed necessary to have someone around in your life that is stable, reliable, at home when you are there, etc. Good parents play this role throughout your growing up life, I can never remember a time I needed a ride in some type of weird situation that my parents wouldn't come through. It's those type of things people need. Now, I'm not in favor of a strictly man is busy, woman is at home as caretaker. Ideally, it's not both parents running around trying to hustle a career, no one with time for kids or each other, but sort of a sharing of roles, where sometimes one is crazy, while sometimes the other is crazy and being able to flow back and forth. Unfortunately, the world doesn't conform to the family schedule.

But what about something like a neighborhood? A series of families close by to one another, supporting one another, like an extended family. This is not unlike the polygamous situation in Big Love (see article link as reference), or the college dorm living proximity - which I remembered this weekend as we reminisced about old times. Because, yes, sometimes one is busy and it is nice to come home to a group of people who have made the social plans for the evening and you can just tag along.

To be cont.