Bond. Father-Child Bond.

It is very difficult to say the word bond without immediately trying to say it in the accent of Jason Connery's father, Sean (the real only James Bond). Not that this is much help when considering the different opportunities available.

A father's chances for gaining an eternal connection with his child are as plentiful as a father's capacity for loving. And as father of 13, Gary Chapman says, "...when the second child comes, you hope to love it as much the first, and then the same with the third, and then the fourth and so on, until you realize you have an unlimited ability to love.”

So, father and son Robert and Sam Stovall, investment advisers who take opposite directions in gaining extraordinary financial success, stay away from shop talk — it seems to promote competition — and find their peace on American Civil War battlefields.

Owen Morris, a Kansas City writer, could never quite buy into his dad's car passion, but the journey of father and child — the stories to tell and the stories told as the two ventured across the country to reel in the motoring dreams the father discovered by looking on the internet — turned out to be an unusual and perfectly normal bonding experience.

Also both usual and surprising are Archie and Daniel Echols. Son Daniel followed his father's calling (and his father had followed his father) right into the ministry. Now they are bonded together in the pulpit of St. John's United Methodist Church in Lubbock, Texas.

** In fact, the bond between father and child is perfect for this world and still almost always otherwordly. **