The Greatest Gift Parents Can Give

To their children

Joe Merkle
Know Thyself, Heal Thyself
3 min readMar 18, 2022

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Photo by JoEllen Moths from Pexels

A newborn child awakens to a frightening, dark world. One far more restrictive and scarier than it has just left. A stranger in a strange land. This baby has no concept of physicality. Of hunger, pain, physical movement. No means to communicate. It is your job to remind them what it’s like to be human. To comfort, feed, bathe, clothe, and eventually teach them how to…

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Joe Merkle
Know Thyself, Heal Thyself

I write about love, life, loss, kindness, and gratitude. Toss in some fiction and humor and you have the meanderings of a multifarious writer.