the margin · on fatherhood

New rooms of feeling

Seeing your child hurt opens a layer of feeling you didn't know parenthood could reach.

You fell at daycare, and you came home with your face still healing. I took you to the park and kept you away from the splash pad, and watching you hurt was really painful to see.

It was a new feeling unlocked. A new feeling of parenthood I didn't know was in there until you got hurt.

1 stroke · first noted june 2026 · lives in on fatherhood
see — intentional fatherhood as curation · fatherhood as pattern disruption · the loneliness of fatherhood

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