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The stag tells him that he is the eldest of the sons - the father's favorite - and he warns the father that if he tries to shoot any of the stags, their antlers will tear him to pieces.

It's wrong to kill.

Abortion is child mortality.

The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.

Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.

My daughter, Grace, was not killed by a gun. She died suddenly at age 5 from a virulent form of strep. As I stood stunned in a church at her memorial, one of the hardest things I heard someone say was, 'I'm going to go home and hug my child a little tighter.' 'Well, good for you,' I thought. 'I'm going to go home and scream.'

There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

As we say in the hood, I'm a stoop kid.

To lose a child is - I can't imagine anything worse than that.

Kids are pretty brutal.