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Friday, May 9, 2008
Team Hoyt: Father and Son
I think of this when I think of what real manhood means, and fatherhood. This is what you do when your son can't walk...
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all i could think of was the true coutenaces behind those applauding faces, the smirks of derision behind those masks in the crowd. i could hear the cutting remarks, the snickery laughter of those who would mock the ones they believe no right to live. voices of friends saying this. hearing those same feelings from the crowd, their machinations, their plotting, their social gain by portraying themselves at such an event. that is not unlike many a modern man. we like to pick at the ugly, the derisive, the greed. we'd rather revel in the miasma of tar that contemporaries (i hope that's the right word) call beautiful. but then i looked toward the flow that truly mattered. i looked again to this man, bearing his heavy son, and i saw the flow of blood. that deep red river that, coursing through both their veins, and i recall that this man has a heart, and not only one of flesh and muscle. this man wasn't doing this for status. he was doing it, for his son. i don't know. it's just an odd observation.
Truth be told, I doubt the derision is there. Triathlon "fans" tend to be extremelt supportive of even the slowest racers. And these two have achieved a very unusual sort of fame.
Amazing video of the love of a father wanting his son to experience the many god given joys of life.
I think when a man and a woman decide to procreate that they always assume everything is going to be ok with their child. I can't help but think many people would feel defeated by the circumstances that this father deals with on a daily basis. Not to mention the son as well. They both display an huge amount of character is the face of odds such as these. However, I am sure Hoyt just sees it as being a dad.
Too often in society we put the label hero on people who really don't deserve it. This dad is a hero. Not because of what he does...but because of what he doesn't do. He doesn't give up.
Anyone can be a dad...but it takes a real man to be a father.
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all i could think of was the true coutenaces behind those applauding faces, the smirks of derision behind those masks in the crowd. i could hear the cutting remarks, the snickery laughter of those who would mock the ones they believe no right to live. voices of friends saying this. hearing those same feelings from the crowd, their machinations, their plotting, their social gain by portraying themselves at such an event.
that is not unlike many a modern man. we like to pick at the ugly, the derisive, the greed. we'd rather revel in the miasma of tar that contemporaries (i hope that's the right word) call beautiful. but then i looked toward the flow that truly mattered. i looked again to this man, bearing his heavy son, and i saw the flow of blood.
that deep red river that, coursing through both their veins, and i recall that this man has a heart, and not only one of flesh and muscle. this man wasn't doing this for status. he was doing it, for his son.
i don't know. it's just an odd observation.
Truth be told, I doubt the derision is there. Triathlon "fans" tend to be extremelt supportive of even the slowest racers. And these two have achieved a very unusual sort of fame.
Amazing video of the love of a father wanting his son to experience the many god given joys of life.
I think when a man and a woman decide to procreate that they always assume everything is going to be ok with their child. I can't help but think many people would feel defeated by the circumstances that this father deals with on a daily basis. Not to mention the son as well. They both display an huge amount of character is the face of odds such as these. However, I am sure Hoyt just sees it as being a dad.
Too often in society we put the label hero on people who really don't deserve it. This dad is a hero. Not because of what he does...but because of what he doesn't do. He doesn't give up.
Anyone can be a dad...but it takes a real man to be a father.
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