Comments on: Thanks for your responses to “For Fathers Everywhere”! http://orleansonlineblog.com/2009/06/thanks-for-your-responses-to-for-fathers-everywhere/ The Official Blog of the band, "Orleans", hosted by Lance and Larry Hoppen Sat, 19 May 2012 09:58:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: mshoshani http://orleansonlineblog.com/2009/06/thanks-for-your-responses-to-for-fathers-everywhere/#comment-67 mshoshani Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:31:32 +0000 http://orleansonlineblog.com/?p=36#comment-67 What a beautiful post. I found Orleans online too late for the "For Fathers Everywhere" song, but I have three children who are all the apple of my eye and my wife's. I'm 44 myself and still have my own father, although my mother passed on in 1994. One of the interesting things of having children actually came to me in an epiphany while watching my teenage daughter listen to a modern-day cover of "Dancing In The Moonlight", and that is the fact that generational relations go both ways. The present and future learn from the past, but the present and future also TEACH the past. I realized that while I can play the older versions of "Dancing" by Boffalongo and King Harvest to my children, I can't fully convey the pleasant associations I have from my childhood because that particular world no longer exists and they can't relate to everything I tell them about what they'd never seen. However, I learn from *them* and from everything in the present world, which is THEIR world. And mine. So in a way, while I can pass some things from my generation to theirs, they are also giving from their generation to mine. The circle of life is a wonderful thing, it's mysterious and yet we all strive to understand it. We carry it, and it carries us. And together, we carry on. What a beautiful post. I found Orleans online too late for the “For Fathers Everywhere” song, but I have three children who are all the apple of my eye and my wife’s. I’m 44 myself and still have my own father, although my mother passed on in 1994.

One of the interesting things of having children actually came to me in an epiphany while watching my teenage daughter listen to a modern-day cover of “Dancing In The Moonlight”, and that is the fact that generational relations go both ways. The present and future learn from the past, but the present and future also TEACH the past.

I realized that while I can play the older versions of “Dancing” by Boffalongo and King Harvest to my children, I can’t fully convey the pleasant associations I have from my childhood because that particular world no longer exists and they can’t relate to everything I tell them about what they’d never seen. However, I learn from *them* and from everything in the present world, which is THEIR world. And mine. So in a way, while I can pass some things from my generation to theirs, they are also giving from their generation to mine.

The circle of life is a wonderful thing, it’s mysterious and yet we all strive to understand it. We carry it, and it carries us. And together, we carry on.

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