tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4832027768442739544.post5744757164015609291..comments2023-11-02T01:14:57.860-07:00Comments on Passing Down: The Family FaceHelen Clarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17428046322483273551noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4832027768442739544.post-3320291804697017632008-07-25T09:50:00.000-07:002008-07-25T09:50:00.000-07:00Yes, and there's that idea about inheritance as a ...Yes, and there's that idea about inheritance as a curse. <BR/>Lovely, thanks.Helen Clarehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428046322483273551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4832027768442739544.post-36299255593640710012008-07-24T08:43:00.000-07:002008-07-24T08:43:00.000-07:00Do you know I hadn't connected this at all before ...Do you know I hadn't connected this at all before now, but this made me think of the lyrics to Marc Cohn's song, "The things we've handed down" (here in part):<BR/><BR/><BR/>Will you laugh just like your mother?<BR/>Will you sigh like your old man?<BR/>Will some things skip a generation like I've heard they often can?<BR/>Are you a poet or a dancer, a devil or a clown?<BR/>Or a strange new combination of the things we've handed down?<BR/><BR/>I wonder who you'll look like - will your hair fall down in curls? <BR/>Will you be a mama's boy or daddy's little girl? <BR/>Will you be a sad reminder <BR/>Of what's been lost along the way?<BR/>Maybe you can help me find her in the things you do and say. <BR/><BR/>And these things that we have given you, they are not so easily found.<BR/>But you can thank us later for the things we've handed down.<BR/><BR/>You may not always be so grateful for the way that you were made, <BR/>Maybe some feature of your father's that you'd gladly sell or trade.<BR/>And one day you may look at us and say that you were cursed, <BR/>But over time that line has been extremely well rehearsed,<BR/>by our fathers, and their fathers, in some old and distant town - <BR/>from places no-one here remembers come the things we've handed down...MSFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03766442899630383963noreply@blogger.com