“Parents always make their worst mistakes with the oldest children. That’s when parents know the least and care the most, so they’re more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they’re right.”
Xenocide - Orson Scott Card

I pray this isn’t true for me, but fear it is. Hopefully my son will read this passage one day and forgive me.

Card has been my devil’s advocate and my counselor through these tough times. His books are timeless and impudently relevant to my own life. I had read Ender’s Game in college, but got it, Speaker for the Dead, and Xenocide out on Audio CD recently. Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide especially speak to me as a father and husband.

His words have made me cry, laugh, and scream in anger, as he dared to put in ink how I’ve been feeling. Like the psychologist making the phobic face his fears. Ironic then, that these books are celebrating 10, 20 years in publication. Finding so much truth about life and mankind in works of science fiction has a pleasing irony to it.

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