Pilot's Log

Hey.

Had an appointment at the Health Department today. Was forced to endure half a dozen little brats all acting like the world belonged to them, and their parents. The parents all had piercings and tattoos...but none of them had wedding rings.

While my sample size is too small and too isolated to mean anything to a serious researcher, it should still be a clue. If marriage is failing as an institution, don't blame the gays and lesbians who want to marry their life partners. Blame the young heterosexual adults who don't value being married--not even for their children!--and a society and culture that likewise fails to support and nuture marriage. How likely is it that one or the other--or both--of the parent partners I saw had unmarried parents of their own? Why should they feel the need to get married?

Got the facts from my dreams. In another reality, inhabited with another version of my being, today is my birthday, not the 15th. My wife surprised me with a birthday party at our home, with all of our friends and family attending.

I don't know who she is in this world. I don't know if she even exists here, or if so, whether our paths had ever crossed.

The home seemed familiar but it wasn't Peachtree, and CERTAINLY wasn't Rather Manor.

In that other world, I am successful in the ways that matter here. My glimpse into the other side was too brief to see what dark clouds went into the silver lining or the golden year.

But I have this intuitive thought: however jealous I may be of my other self's life, that other fellow must be jealous of mine in equal measure. So I need to know, S-Prime, what is it that you can't do that I can? What dreams of yours do I need to make true in this world? I have a New Year's Resolution coming, and I can give it to you to fill in the blank. My intuition tells me this is vitally important.

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Doesn't matter what I believe--Too Many Other People don't.

Yes, one man, eleven or more mates, and at least twenty children. Only in America.