The Rauch Men: Youthful Exuberance and Mature Resignation

This comes to us via Blue Jay Hunter’s perfectly lovely Twitter feed. Please enjoy:

This is from “Bring Your Kid to Work Day,” and I tell no tales when I say this contains multitudes. The younger Master Rauch looks excited, as he should be. “Bring Your Kid to Work Day” is always rousing for the tyke in question, and I imagine this is doubly so when your pops is a ballplayer or a dinosaur. The elder Rauch, however, wears quite a different countenance. While his boy can fittingly be described as “a happy young man,” Mr. Rauch, save for his sated girth, resembles one of the indigent defeated from a Walker Evans photograph.

This affirms what parents have long known: children are drought and famine.