Lileks Snuck in the Back Door

Lileks is bleat-ing this week, sneaking back from vacation without telling us. But there is a Bleat today and one for Monday. On having a kid:

You become aware of a world that lives side by side with the one you knew, and you fall into it without effort or complaint. There's a vast difference between remembering Dad coming to your recital and being Dad at the recital. The first is a memory that dead-ends with you; the latter connects you to him and to all the kids and dads to come.