More Father's Day Thoughts

In my line, we fathers tend to be a little older when we finally get around to making babies. That tends to make the generations a little more removed from their parents and grand parents. That may be a good thing. While it lessens the personal bonds to some extent, it gives the next generation a spot in time where more knowledge and better tools are available to them for whatever they are to do. I wish I was this articulate; PZ Myers does father's day:

"...to launch a new generation into the world with a little momentum and a little potential … potential to stand autonomously and be something new; not to serve the past but to become the future."

While we're at it, turn up your speakers and take a look at Jack Szostak's work on the way first fathers are made from the stuff of stars. Beethoven's 9th, 4th movement.