I wanna have a baby
Sometimes I think that maybe
This old world's too f*cked up for any firstborn son...
- Over the Rhine

What will I tell my boy when things go terribly wrong? What do I tell myself?

Watching the hurricane and aftermath, I couldn't help but put myself in the place of the mothers with tiny children. While the grownups were becoming increasingly agitated, angry, and afraid, in the footage I saw of children they were quiet, waiting, resting, trusting. They knew they were small and that their parents loved them and would do whatever could be done for them. Why am I so afraid sometimes...