Weekend Reads 14.2.2025
What! You, too?!
I write to you from a somewhat noisy Cava restaurant about 20 minutes south of my house. I had to make a trip to the bank to sort out a random direct deposit issue and before heading home, I thought – it’s sunny, it’s Friday, why not take a bit of a break from the grind? And so here I am at a table next to a father and daughter engaged in a very animated conversation about her friends.
I have to say, this dad is killing it.
His gentle pushing back happens rhythmically. She makes a proclamation about a friend being disloyal; he takes a beat and asks her to take a different perspective. And around she comes to see where maybe she could do better. He’s not invested in her being the hero of the story but instead in her having character as she walks through this friend-drama.
Just before they got up to throw their compostable bowls in the trash, she said something along the lines of, “You’re right. I do that a lot, so it’s good you reminded me.”
He loves her and so he …
