FATHER’S DAY POST
I normally like to keep this blog from becoming too personal…because many of the people who follow it I’ve never met in person, and who wants to read about someone they don’t really know? That being said, I feel like I need a space to vent.
It’s Father’s day. My Dad died exactly three months ago today. I made this slide show for his services. The song I used was “our song”…I can remember on nice summer evenings, us driving around blasting music and singing at the top of our lungs…and then arriving back at his house and sitting in the drive listening to this song. We’d play it three times, and just sit there, together.
I credit my Dad with instilling in me a deep deep passion for music…and the ability to let it take me to the highest of highs and the lowest of lows.
When my mom died last year, I said to a few that I didn’t think my dad would last long after her…I didn’t mean it in a horrid way…I meant it in the fact that they had such a connection, that they were best friends, and that it would be wrong to keep them apart. Granted, they both moved on from each other and had wonderful marriages…and I was fortunate enough to gain two amazing step parents and step families (that I wouldn’t trade for the world)…BUT, deep down, I know that my Mom and my Dad are having a blast looking over me and nodding in approval at most of the things I do…
On this Father’s Day… I miss my father more than ever…this man taught me what good french toast tastes like….this man took me to get my learners permit and taught me to drive….this man taught me about the musical genius of David Gray…this man taught me how to laugh at the little moments and how to brush off the insignificant…this man never stopped cracking jokes and forever made me laugh…
I miss my father, for everything that he was…and I forget everything that he wasn’t.
