A Day Like Today
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I write letters to my newborn son, Myles, sharing my journey as a first-time dad and spreading the love I didn't experience myself. If you’ve been here before — thank you for coming back. If you’re new here, below are some good places to start:
The most recent one - When Do People Stop Being Nice to Children?
Recently I decided to dig a little deeper and explore some topics around fatherhood, my own upbringing, and what it means to be raising a Black son. For the foreseeable future, I’ll be keeping all poems to Myles open to free subscribers and his Monthly Mylestones too, but I will be paywalling some of these letters and slowly archiving past letters. You can read more about this decision and my thinking in the letter below I sent last week to all readers.
Week 51 Dear Myles, there will never be a day like today when two palms fit into one raised arms signal for me to lift counting to three to fit a shirt over your head tussling to put on your shoes there will never be a day like today carrying you in one arm fitting across my chest scaling across the couch over to me tap to get my attention fuss and cry means play “guess what I want” I’m reminded there will never be days like this again the look you give me when I walk in a room and you drop the Earth in your hand even if it’s just a toy you crawl over to me like it’s the first time you seen me in months even if I just went to the bathroom like “if I don’t make it there right now he might be gone” you remind me to cherish the small the feeds the rock the smile the cry the naps the diapers, even the diapers you remind me that you’ll never love me like you will today. thank you for loving me the only way you know how by the time you read this it’ll be a different day, I hope the way you love me today doesn’t change. Love, Daddy
Appreciation Time: Thank you,
and Isaiah, for signing up to be paid subscribers and joining me on this journey of going deeper. It’s especially heartwarming to have the support of other fathers and men here.Special thanks to Natalie for becoming a founding member and her kind words. I had a rough week, but Natalie words encouraged me. I’m so grateful for all of you.
Let me know your thoughts:
What's a small thing you miss that your little one used to do that you miss?
What's a small thing you're committing to cherish because tomorrow it could be gone?
Who’s someone that makes you feel like the luckiest person alive?
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Read about Our first Father’s Day.
You got me tearing up bro 😭
Those moments are mundane but filled with a sweetness that, once gone, can only remembered.
I appreciate the reading too 👏🏽
Marc, you’ve hit on the most extraordinary part of being a parent for me, which is the surprise of being revered so completely by a small human being. It is the honor of a lifetime to be looked at the way they look at us. Beautifully put.