For Shyla
-Being a father is not a suit or a mask or a performance…it permeates
each and every manifestation of self, it is intertwined and woven into
the entirety of the concatenation of self, from the moment of a child’s
birth…our current modes, society, communal cultures often break away
from this truth, as father’s abandon their children…but it is an
undeniable truth, as a father, you are changed, your child is an
integral part of you, just as you are an integral part of your
child…as a father, it is my privilege, and I embrace the
responsibility, to strive to provide my child with every possible
advantage-spiritual, psychic, emotional and intellectual-that my child
may find her own self-actualization, fulfillment of dreams and bliss
upon the trajectory she chooses her life to take, ushered along,
encouraged, and uplifted along this journey, unceasingly, by
her father, one of the two people present and responsible for the
moment she took her first breath…