Hubris

Big hearts small hearts I see them every day. Small hearts will send Dad away from the woman he has lived with for more than a decade. Selfish little people are kicking him out: for shame! The small hearted Governor of New York just announced his resignation moments ago. He had ample love at home but a rapacious appetite for expensive prostitutes. Poor Eliot Spitzer! Now perceived as a hubristic hypocrite. What a terrible fall from grace is all I can say. The disaster he has brought upon himself and his family is stunning. The smaller disaster with Dad and Mary is the impossible situation he is in, wrought first by Alzeheimer's disease, and now by her unloving children who have moved to throw him out. Dad will not compromise. He is stubborn and inflexible. He's 85! The woman he has loved since 1997 has lost her mind; her children have taken control, against her expressed, but unwritten wishes. They are kicking the old dog and his old dog Barkus out ASAP. We see the ploy. They call it a break, for "vacation." Once he is out the door, they will never allow him back. He will have abandonned Mary; she will not remember who he is. They've said this in so many words. It is so cruel and heartless, quite beyond comprehension. It will be as though she died. It may as well kill Dad. While she will not remember anything after a few moments, he will likely remember for as long as he can still think. It is a bitter destiny. In the end it will be better for him to be elsewhere. He has a chance to live again, or start in a non-adversarial position, but how do you start over when you are 85, increasingly frail and more alone than you've ever been in your life?