since my Dad died

Date:   2/21/2010 5:44:35 PM ( 14 y ago)

And oddly, a lot of my fatigue and energy issues started when my Father died a year ago today.

He was such a cool guy. A Pathfinder at Normandy in WW2, an enormously charming, bright, witty and funny man who had a way with words in the sincerest and caring of all manner. He was a people-whisperer (and a damn good dog whisperer too). In his later years he became the most positive person I've ever known. Not in a Pollyanna sort of way, but because he believed that life was meant to be fun, to be lived, to be savoured.

He wrote for TV when TV had a little more to say. Shows before my time like the US Steel Hour, Playhouse 90, Dick Powell Presents. Episodes called "The Little Bullfighter" and a teleplay about my Great Grandfather who lost his first wife and sent away for a mail order bride. When she showed up, she was a deaf mute. Episodic tv during the 60's and 70's. Brilliant with dialogue, simple in his approach.

I remember calling the house several times when I was in college and through the years afterward to speak to the folks and he'd answer and drawl in his Oakie twang that I should listen to his latest music piece. And he'd set the phone down and pick up his bagpipes and play a few licks. Jokes like you couldn't believe. The stupidest punch lines in the world that would make you laugh, made everyone laugh.

I always smiled when people mentioned to my Mom that I was a vest-pocket version of him. Really, I'd be proud to be even half that. Years ago, when I turned 30, I decided that I could either let life determine my happiness or let my happiness determine my life and it was because of my Dad.

As he said toward the end, he had second and third helpings of this life, lived it to the hilt and had a long and interesting life full of people, art, gun magazines (don't ask), poetry, music, and most of all experiences that he loved. What else is there?

I miss you, Dad. Wherever you are, I am still your child. In more ways than I could ever have guessed before you went.



 

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