{"id":776,"date":"2010-04-05T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=776"},"modified":"2010-04-05T20:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T00:03:00","slug":"post-easter-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/post-easter-musings\/","title":{"rendered":"POST EASTER MUSINGS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hope all y\u2019all had a great Easter weekend. Apart from its religious significance, Easter has become a secular cornerstone of holidays in American society, a time for family gathering and renewal.<\/p>\n

That was brought home to me the day before Easter Sunday when my third grandchild came into the world. Benjamin arrived good to go at Apgar 8 and 9, weighing nine pounds twelve ounces and measuring 22 inches, exactly the same specs as his mom a quarter century ago. I delivered that little girl with my own two hands \u2013 the single coolest thing I\u2019ve ever done in my life, which is why I still tell total strangers about it \u2013 and on a weekend when we celebrate birth and rebirth, it\u2019s beautiful to see that completion of the circle.<\/p>\n

Benjamin was born on April 3; another day, and he would have shared a birthday with my dad, who would have been 110 on April 4. Benjamin\u2019s older sister, my first grandchild Robin, shared her birthday with my mom\u2026how cool is THAT?<\/p>\n

On April 4, I celebrated Easter and my father\u2019s birthday shooting in the IDPA event of the Florida Sunshine Games. Dad owned his share of auto pistols, but always carried a revolver for serious business. When his only son developed a preference for the .45 automatic at age twelve, he rolled his eyes and didn\u2019t quite SAY, \u201cWell, at least the kid ain\u2019t a commie beatnik drug addict,\u201d but the message was clear. So, I shot a wheel gun \u2013 the S&W Performance Center .45 mentioned in our coverage of the SHOT Show here a few months ago \u2013 and managed to turn in the top revolver score.<\/p>\n

Just couldn\u2019t shoot an auto on my dad\u2019s birthday\u2026ya gotta pay respect to parental values somehow\u2026and shooting a match that replicates the defense of the innocent doesn\u2019t strike me as at all incongruous to the celebration of life that is Easter.<\/p>\n

The important thing from my perspective is, mother and baby are doing well, and life is good, and it was definitely a happy Easter on this end.\u00a0 Hope it was on your end, too.\u00a0 Feel free to tell us about it here.<\/p>\n

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