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Happy Father's Day!

6/17/2012

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It's a melancholy day ...
      I miss my parents - even after all these years.  I do all right most of the time until their special holidays roll around.  I miss looking for that "special" greeting card to send.  I miss not being able to pick up the phone, and hear their voices.
      With Dad, I miss challenging him to a game of Scrabble (which I usually lost).  I miss sharing my writings with him and having him tell me how I had a special gift for it.  That meant so much, since I always revered him for his intellect, and wit!
      Fortunately, for me, my father and I had a bond and closeness that crossed boundaries of divorce.  I was only seven years young then.  ~nr lenz

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.  ~Ruth E.  Renkel

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.  ~Charles Wadsworth (1814-1882)

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
~Jim Valvano
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aileen
6/18/2012 12:48:28

I miss my dad too. We had a great reunion of his side of the family and got to visit with my only living aunt on his side, his sister who will be 93 next month. Each family spoke of their memories of family gatherings which brought tears to many eyes. I miss all the ones who have gone before. I was glad my two children were there to hear about their great-grandmother raising 4 of the 7 children on the family farm alone after my grandfather died of cancer and how their grandfather (my dad) had to quit school at age 12 to help his brother, age 17, do the farming. They know they come from hard-working people who never gave up or asked for hand-outs.

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Nancy
6/19/2012 00:24:06

Aileen ... thanks so much for responding to a comment in my blog. Wouldn't it be great if all kids could hear the stories of generations past? I wonder if your children realize how very fortunate they are to learn, first hand, about their parents, grandparents, and great grandparents ... all stories they can pass down to their own children one day, and know that they are true, not fabricated. The more I do genealogy the bigger the quilt of life becomes ... one thread at a time! Did anyone remember to bring plenty of Kleenex?! *smile* I cried when I held a "platter" that I know was used in the Central Hotel in Sumner - when my great grandparents owned it. I didn't expect that kind of reaction. Children today can only imagine the trials and tribulations of their ancestors.

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