Another Chapter 4

Chapter 4 gives Embracing Defeat a 'deeper' meaning.


Butt first:

Away on Business…

Starting a family has a tendency to seriously alter a person’s outlook. Fatherhood? 

(Don't get him started...)

Well, it can definitely change the way you see a lot of things. 

(Oh, no. Here we go...)

Take this postcard for example:

I was away. Had gone back to the US for a few weeks in order to take care of obligations. It was my first time away from the kids for more than a day or two. So when I saw the postcard, it reminded me of the little ones left behind. Heck, I thought it was cute.

Well, it was and it wasn’t. Or it is and it isn't.

It was cute until I turned the card over. Took a look at the backside to see that they, those adorable and clueless little faces, are a kind of unwanted fallout, considered one of the biohazards for those who are engaged in that ancient and revered profession. Yes, those are Eurasian orphans, from The occupation, 1950.