Turtles All the Way Down

Jonah Goldberg, a National Review author, recently noted on The Corner the anniversary of the passing of his Father.  I was pretty moved by the aching he expressed in his post even two years after his father’s death, and moved even more by the touching, funny tribute to his father shortly after his death.  I really appreciated Jonah’s connection of humor and wisdom, and how he highlighted that with stories about his dad, who sound like a really, really neat man — the kind of man I would have liked to have known. 

The stories of the walks with his dad and the seemingly random pearls of wisdom he would share challenges me to make sure that I have those moments with my boys.  What really struck me, though, was the phrase at the end:

“He was turtles all the way down.”

I love the image that stirs.  I hope someday (a long, long time from now, hopefully) my children can write about me the way Jonah wrote his dad.