My Dad’s Birthday

Today is my dad’s birthday. Even though he’s been gone for almost a half century I still miss him and he’s been much in my thoughts today. I regret that just as we were beginning to develop an adult relationship he was gone.

I have never found anyone whose opinion was so consistently good since.

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  • Very attractive.

  • W

  • What a couple.

  • jan Link

    Interesting, today’s is my Mom’s birthday. I saw her today.

  • Andy Link

    I don’t know what it is, but that is a really great picture. Plus it reminds me of my Dad quite a bit.

  • What is he doing with his hands? I can’t figure it out.

  • I believe he’s reading from a small handbook.

    I like the picture because it’s a pretty good actual likeness of him. Those are fairly rare because he was almost always on the other side of the camera. That picture was almost certainly taken either by me or my next oldest sibling.

  • Jimbino Link

    It’s my birthday, too, and I still miss my mom who died young 40 years ago.

  • TastyBits Link

    When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

    – Mark Twain (attribution disputed)

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