10 Cool Things About My Dad!

• My dad took us on awesome vacations.  He even took us out of school for a week every year to go snow skiing.
• My dad would often surprise us and pulled into Foster’s Freeze to buy us an ice cream cone.
• My dad went to a Father/Daughter dinner with me for Campfire girls once.  I thought it was totally boring.  He must have hated it but never let on.
• My dad taught me to catch and hit.  Although I look like a girl doing it…because I am one…I am good at it.
• My dad was the scary dad.  If boys came over, I knew they must really like me.
• My dad made sure I had the exact car I wanted when getting my first car.  I loved that car so much I kept it for over 10 years.
• My dad taught me to be a hard worker and do the job right the first time.
• My dad would hand me a twenty when I asked to borrow five bucks.
• My dad blustered for years about how when I was done with school and working full time I would have to pay rent.  When that time came he wouldn’t take my money.
• My dad loves and takes care of his big extended family.  He would be there in a second if any of us needed him.

Happy Father's day Dad. I love you!

When Death Comes

When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom; taking the world into my arms.

When it's over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

Excerpt from When Death Comes by Mary Oliver