Showing posts with label Disney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Disney. Show all posts

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Duck Daddy Sermon

You may not be reading this in church, but that doesn't mean you are missing the sermon. This week's objet d'eBay is accessorized with a moral.

The most obvious accompaniment to this Donald Duck cross-stitching pattern is that it is not so easy to be a duck dad — currently the city of Reykjavik, Iceland, cries out to ask if you are even man enough to try.

Surprisingly hard is probably true for whatever cross-stitching is and certainly for being or having a father. Hard times (written by father of one daughter and "American music" Stephen Foster) are many, dealing with a hard father can be, well, difficult.

Finally, sometimes being a dad is out-of-fashion, which is, of course, embodied by trying to peddle a Happy Father's Day anything when most dads are geared up to celebrate St. Patrick, a man for whom many miracles are claimed but never the actual hard work of raising his own child.

** It's the dad curse: turning even the most mundane into a teaching moment. **

Sunday, July 1, 2007

ETM

Explain to me. Please. If you love (or even like) your father, how do you possibly "honor" him by suggesting he is some sort of female fairy figure? Today's objet d'Ebay is a Happy Father's Day 2007 pin featuring Tinkerbell. Is it a regift? Ah, the boring story that no doubt could be told about how it ends up in the world's flea market. But, all bathos aside, it will surely lead to a great insight into the human condition to understand who was thinking what in conceiving and manufacturing this?

** Would it be worse if one pinned Dad with Minnie Mouse? **