'Wisdom' or something like it
'Wisdom' comes from many sides 'Wisdom'…what is it? Sometimes I feel that I have ‘it’, other times, I reflect on how little I have changed since the age of seven. I can cringe at my lack of maturity and my naïve and often childish attitude to life’s problems. Containing the silliness within is perhaps my greatest achievement if I was keeping a list, which I am not. Well, maybe a small one. At the top of it, I have pencilled in in small, hesitant writing, small enough so that the daughters will not see it ‘good dad’. I have destroyed all means of erasing it and keep it hidden, but it really is the top of my list of life’s achievements. My belief in myself as a ‘good dad’ is very fragile sadly and varies from day to day…just like my sense of what wisdom is and my tentative and hold on it. So back to wisdom then. I thought that Art making would be able to accommodate my need for expression, so it has come as a surprise to me that I have the need to ...