]> http://careymorgan.com/taxonomy/term/7/0 en http://careymorgan.com/node/95 <div class="quotes-quote"> <p>The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.</p> </div> <div class="quotes-author"> <p>&mdash; Plutarch</p> </div> parenting society Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:56:50 -0700 http://careymorgan.com/node/28 <p>Last night as I was talking and praying with my 5-year-old daughter Evelyn, she asked me about something to which I answered "When you're all grown up." Then she asked when that would be, so I told her she'd go off to college in about 13 years. Her next question grabbed my attention, "Will you be alive then, Daddy?" I at first said, "Of course, I'll only be 53!" But then it sunk in that I couldn't make that promise at all. Not only could I die of accidental causes, but I might fulfill my hereditary destiny of dying of heart disease by then. It would only require that fall in line two years earlier than my Dad had his gratefully non-fatal heart attack.</p> heart parenting Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:14:02 -0700