You Have to Do This. We Need It.
The Daily Dad
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4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2020
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
"There is a reason that this metaphor keeps popping up. Cormac McCarthy talked about 'carrying the fire' in his haunting novel The Road, which he wrote for his son. Now Alanis Morissette puts her own spin on it in her beautiful song, 'Ablaze,' which she wrote for her two children."
Ryan explores this metaphor further in today's Daily Dad Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast where we provide one lesson every day to help you with your |
| 0:14.1 | most important job being a dad. These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy, by practical |
| 0:20.3 | wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world. |
| 0:24.5 | Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. |
| 0:33.1 | You have to do this. We need it. |
| 0:36.0 | There is a reason that this metaphor keeps popping up. |
| 0:39.8 | Cormick McCarthy talked about carrying the fire in his haunting novel The Road, which he wrote for his |
| 0:46.3 | son. And now Alanis Morissette puts her own spin on it in her beautiful song, A Blaze, |
| 0:52.1 | which she wrote for her two children. To my girl, all your |
| 0:55.7 | innocence and fire, she sings, my mission is to keep the light in your eyes ablaze. And to her son, |
| 1:02.1 | whom she calls a precious gentle warrior with so much energy, she sings the same thing. We can |
| 1:08.5 | watch Alanis sing the song in a viral appearance on Jimmy Fallon as she |
| 1:13.4 | holds her daughter. Her daughter who has no idea she is on national television is genuinely |
| 1:19.6 | precocious and curious and funny. Alanus is trying to sing to do her job in her daughter is just being a kid. |
| 1:30.3 | That's what we are trying to protect. This is what we have to take care of, no matter how old they are. Our job is to keep them the way they were |
| 1:36.0 | born, which as the road was written to show us, means fundamentally good and innocent and pure. |
| 1:43.3 | We have to help them carry the fire. We have to keep |
| 1:46.4 | that light in their eyes ablaze, no matter how dark the world gets. In fact, we have to do it now |
| 1:52.9 | more than ever because the world is dark. That's our job. That is our warrant. And if we fail, God help us. |
| 2:03.4 | Thanks for listening to the Daily Dad podcast. Please leave us a review. It helps. Tell your friends, |
| 2:09.3 | share this with other dads. And of course, you can sign up for an email version of this podcast |
| 2:13.7 | at Daily Dad.com. |
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