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JennyM
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Sat Jun 17, 2006 8:12 pm |
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Heli, I am saddened to read your post about your father and having lived without a father's touch.
Thank you for sharing that.
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| dithers
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| Heli
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Sat Jun 17, 2006 8:29 pm |
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Thanks JennyM.
In a strange way, my heart and soul were healed a few months before my father died. At a family gathering I saw my father take my 1-1/2 year old granddaughter by the hand and walk across the dance floor with her.
Autumn became my physical link to my Dad, two generations later. This is the image of my Dad that I carry with me..... This old man, tall yet frail holding the hand of this little auburn haired girl as she adoringly told him all her little stories.
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| gagal_05
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Sat Jun 17, 2006 8:35 pm |
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| Heli wrote: | Thanks JennyM.
In a strange way, my heart and soul were healed a few months before my father died. At a family gathering I saw my father take my 1-1/2 year old granddaughter by the hand and walk across the dance floor with her.
Autumn became my physical link to my Dad, two generations later. This is the image of my Dad that I carry with me..... This old man, tall yet frail holding the hand of this little auburn haired girl as she adoringly told him all her little stories. |
How sweet. So great that you had that connection through your grandchild. I would have loved for my dad to have been here for my son.
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| JennyM
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Sat Jun 17, 2006 9:09 pm |
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| Quote: | In a strange way, my heart and soul were healed a few months before my father died. At a family gathering I saw my father take my 1-1/2 year old granddaughter by the hand and walk across the dance floor with her.
Autumn became my physical link to my Dad, two generations later. This is the image of my Dad that I carry with me..... This old man, tall yet frail holding the hand of this little auburn haired girl as she adoringly told him all her little stories. |
Heli, I have goosebumps. Literally.
Again, than you for sharing something so personal, and so moving, with us.
And I am happy to hear that you heart and sould were healed.
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| BhamMom
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Sat Jun 17, 2006 10:42 pm |
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My daddy was different than most when I grew up. He loved to go to PTA meetings and help with homework. He is the one that put me to bed each night and read a bedtime story. He always said a prayer before I went to sleep. When he came home from work and I ran and met him before he came in the door. Yep, we were HIS kids when he came home. My mother had us during the day and he was clear that he wanted his time every afternoon. (I think my mother was glad). He cooked us breakfast every Saturday and Sunday mornings. He would work in the yard on Saturday mornings or garden and then come inside and cook pies and cakes.
Imagine how shocked I was when I married and my ex did absolutely nothing. I thought all men were like my daddy. The men on both sides of my family were loving fathers so I thought all men were. Boy, was I wrong. I sat in my daddy's lap every night and watched TV until he died. I was fourteen. I was a daddy's girl, can you tell? Yes, I think of him everyday and always smile at something that reminds me of him.
My daddy had the strangest eyes, yet they were beautiful. They were either blue, light green or grey. It depended on what he wore that day to what color they were. No one in the family got my daddy's eyes. I got the green part but that is all until my oldest son was born. He has my daddy's eyes so he lives every day. Isn't it odd how things turn out?
Any way, tomorrow is Father's Day and to all of you wonderful daddy's and granddaddy's in the world. Happy Fathers Day.
I will get a call tomorrow wishing me a happy father's day. A business associate that I have known for several years always calls on Mother's and Father's Day. He says that I wore both suits and deserve to be recognized on both days. Isn't that sweet?
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| likestoflap-lol
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Sat Jun 17, 2006 10:46 pm |
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beautiful stories -reminds me of the chicken soup for the soul books. we should publish a refugees book for the soul.
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| BhamMom
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Sat Jun 17, 2006 10:49 pm |
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| likestoflap-lol wrote: | | beautiful stories -reminds me of the chicken soup for the soul books. we should publish a refugees book for the soul. |
Moon,
Start designing that cover. We're on to something here. 
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| Queen
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Sat Jun 17, 2006 11:00 pm |
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Thank you all for sharing... Sure brings one back down from reading all the meaness... And I am not bashing. ..
I needed to read a thread like this.
Makes one wish things could have been better...
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| islandamethyst
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Sat Jun 17, 2006 11:25 pm |
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This will be my first father's day without my dad.
We had a passionate love/hate relationship... because like him, I don't do anything half heartedly.
He taught us to "have one vice and have it well"
No matter how bad the scrapes we got into were, we would never be punished if we told the truth.
He was very ill before he died, and in those last days we found a common ground of understanding, although I do believe there was more we could have shared, and that I could have done more to make his last days comfy.
He believed in the Christian heaven, and I believe he is there.
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| likestoflap-lol
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Sat Jun 17, 2006 11:34 pm |
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| BhamMom wrote: | | likestoflap-lol wrote: | | beautiful stories -reminds me of the chicken soup for the soul books. we should publish a refugees book for the soul. |
Moon,
Start designing that cover. We're on to something here. |
we could make it happen with joy and vc help. just noticed this is my 500 post-lots of soup here!!!
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| BhamMom
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Sat Jun 17, 2006 11:34 pm |
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| islandamethyst wrote: | This will be my first father's day without my dad.
We had a passionate love/hate relationship... because like him, I don't do anything half heartedly.
He taught us to "have one vice and have it well"
No matter how bad the scrapes we got into were, we would never be punished if we told the truth.
He was very ill before he died, and in those last days we found a common ground of understanding, although I do believe there was more we could have shared, and that I could have done more to make his last days comfy.
He believed in the Christian heaven, and I believe he is there. |
Island,
Common ground is great. It makes you forget the "hurts." Also, if he believed in the christian heaven, he is there. I know it.
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