Current mood:	thoughtful
Current music:	Handel
Entry tags:	ponderings

One of my favorite quotes ever
Outside of holy writ, anyway. Here it is:

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
Robert A. Heinlein.

I have been giving a good deal of thought lately to manliness, what is means to be a man, particularly what it means to be a strong Christian man, and what my proper role and demeanor as the head of my family should be.  Heinlein's quote deals mostly with the practical rather than the philisophical aspects of manhood, but they reflect an underlying understanding of a man being diligent and able in whatever might be entrusted to him.  Food for thought, fraters.  Food for thought indeed.  Oyster out.