Don’t Do This

the peripheral is a world at right angles to reality

Don’t do this, that’s my advice. Don’t throw your baby to the floor. Don’t do it unless you know how to miss and your baby rebounds for more.

Sure, if you dare, hold an ankle, toss in the air, bend over a barrel. But the secret of the floor is throw at right angles and few are so agile (babies so fragile).

Throw into the peripheral world, where oddities flicker past your eye. They deny existence viewed straight on: were here, but now we’re gone.

Don’t turn your head or think too much, with the baby tossed beside reality. The child will vanish, none believe, and only you have baby memories.

About Me

Roger Kenyon was North America’s first lay canon lawyer and associate director at the Archdiocese of Seattle. He was involved in tech (author of Macintosh Introductory Programming, Mainstay) before teaching (author of ThinkLink: a learner-active program, Riverwood). Roger lives near Toronto and offers free critical thinking and character development courses online.

“When not writing, I’m riding—eBike, motorbike, and a mow cart that catches air down the hills. One day I’ll have Goldies again.”