Happy Father's Day 2011

Hey Dad
I miss you today and each day - some days in smaller discrete moments, some I may even fail to notice. Others days it weighs upon me and you are missed deeply and with steady attention. Happily I also have many times when I celebrate your ongoing presence in my life. Thank you for being my Dad and sharing yourself with me in all your humanity, strong and weak, easy and hard, fun and sad... I only wish we had more time. While you were alive and now that you are gone from this earth. Here is a photo that I took and all the while I was taking it (them... I took about 2 dozen photos as this guy emerged) I was thinking of you and how you taught me to be curious about and love the natural world. Thanks
love, Rob

Been thinking about you a lot, Dad...

Hi Dad-
Just dropping by to say hello and to tell you how much I still miss you. Father's Day is coming up- and I wish, nothing more, than to be able to give you a big hug.
I'm still truckin' along and though I know that you would be proud of the person I have become (and who I am still becoming)...it'd be nice to have you here with me/us and lend a smile from time to time. :)

Missing you something fierce-

Sherryberry

hey Daddy...

just hey

AIN'T NO GRAVE (Can Hold My Body Down) Johnny Cash

Merry Christmas

Wehllll...
Dad it has been quite a while, but I thought I'd best get on here and say a bit of something. I don't mean that in the way that a person feels when goaded to stand up and say something when he doesn't really want to but has to. I just mean the feeling has welled up long enough that now it has to get up out of me. I think the most important reflections for this year and in this particular day are that I am mostly happy in remembering you. I'm happy because the sting of your leaving is distant, the pit of despair of losing the ability to be with you and the frustration of not having you there when I need you is something I've managed to climb up out of and over. I'm also happy because in the process of climbing out of that pit of despair and overcoming that frustration has been effective because I've learned to see those parts of you in me and in others who's lives you touched. And even in a strange way I see bits of you in my children and in the other lights of the world and this brings a smile to my lips and a quiet peace to my heart for I know that you have not and cannot die.

Thanks Robert

I come here just to see that picture of Dad's smiling face. I just pop open this page and say "hi Dad!" and then go on with my day. Maybe you could give me a copy of this picture?

Raymond