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What Love Looks Like
In this first-person piece about his "profoundly handicapped" son, Globe and Mail journo Ian Brown demonstrates immaculate depths of paternal perseverance.
"Profoundly handicapped" because the boy can't eat or speak. Because the boy beats himself, repeatedly and violently. Brown states in the video's first chapter that, unlike other parents of handicapped children, he would trade his child for another if he could; a statement of such unselfish love that it made my head spin. Unselfish because his child is suffering. Unselfish because of course it would break Brown to lose his boy. Unselfish because that's an anguish he would embrace if it meant his child's pain would be over.
—mondo
