Volume 4 · The Ledger and the Loom · Essay 108
Good-Enough Parent
You may not know the name Good-Enough Parent, but you know the thing. This page only introduces the two of you formally.
What this concept offers is a pause — one extra beat between what happens and what you do about it. Civilisation, someone said, is measured in that beat.
The vegetable vendor with a tin box knows what the salaried man with three apps forgets: count the cash at the end of the day, every day, without drama.
Money is a good clerk and a terrible master; the arrangement is entirely up to us. If this page made you think of one specific person, do not send it to them. Apply it to yourself first; that is how these things work.