What is Terribly Wrong: The World Needs More Good Women! | Eastern North Carolina Now

    What may be worse is that good men have no reason to exist without them. No reason at all: From conception until that dark void of eternal salvation or damned oblivion, good men need the nurturing emotional salve of that rare good woman.

    Thankfully, I found mine nearly 37 years ago. Fortunately, my son, who turned 27 years yesterday, breathing the fine, pure air of a purposeful life, has found his.

    But before I get too far ahead my point, I digress: Men, for the most part, are hapless lumps of clay, begging for the dexterous creativity of a purposeful woman. We secretly crave to be fashioned into something serviceable, and few of us succeed without being molded by our secondary creators, by proxy, endowed by a good and omnipotent God. I'm one case in point, even if it may be often expertly hidden. My son, Stanhope, is another.

    Before meeting our respective wives, we both were as shifting grains of sand: a collection of separate hardened rocks - small, purposeless, unsettled. The proverbial "good woman," for young men like myself then and Stanhope now, are like heavenly bodies, empowered with a magnificent gravitational pull, keeping us tethered through the good, the bad and the indifferent yet to come. They truly are a necessity for a purposeful existence at their very best, or at their least, by keeping us from spinning off into the emotional oblivion of having too much space, and way too much time on our hands.
Happy Birthday Stanhope, and the good women that made it all possible: Katherine Buckman Deatherage (left), my ultimate "fortunate son" - Stanhope Deatherage (left no excuses to not be successful in this life; center), and the sweetheart of my youth and my "best good friend" of nearly 37 years, Lynn Womble Deatherge.     Stan Deatherage is, of course, behind the camera.    Click image to expand.

    So you see, more good women would certainly enhance the probability that there would be more good men: to be better fathers, to foster better future citizens and ultimately be better friends to our mates and Mankind writ large for as long as we be blessed with the breath of life to make a difference, and be remembered as such.

    So women, become better people. The condition of Man, and the entire future of human existence is dependent upon you.
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