To laugh
Why do we laugh? Because if we didn’t, the build up of indignities might cause us to explode. Which is worse, to laugh while the world is in the grip of multiple crisis or to allow one’s self to atrophy into a self-pitying quivering mass due to things beyond control? I was holding my grandson last night and talking to him. I have never really talked baby-talk to my kids, or anyone else’s kids for that matter. I do, however talk in a friendly, assuring voice that I hope is a calming influence. As... Sign in to see full entry.