Nobody should put their own success above their children’s happiness – it’s selfish, if you’re asking him, unnatural. As a method of surviving, it’s a worthwhile trade: your family’s comfort in exchange for your own absence. But to not be present when you have the means – to shirk a father’s duty for the sake of making art – well, that’s a subtler version of abandonment. The world needs fewer men like Patrick Weir and more like Pop.
