For those who still have them, celebrate them. You will never find yourself saying "I wish I had spent less time with DAD"
Thank you, Tooner
Not a video...just a musical background for the daddy in all of you
it doesn't have to be a factory...but you all have dreams for your children like your father had for you....AJ
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Allowing the tears dry in my eyes and fighting off more to flow...I offer my sympathy and unconditional support to all those looking at Father's Day without Daddy. This is my first and I am a blubbering fool.
Daddy may want a day of do nothin bliss and that is okay.
Know your dad well enough to make that do nothin day possible.
My daddy would have been happy watching Fox News, puttering around the yard showing off his tomato plants and walking the dog in the woods along Lake Michigan.
And I fondly look at the place my mother laid my daddy to rest...
it is the Veteran's area, closest to the road, that leads directly across the street to the parking lot, in the park along Lake Michigan, my Daddy would walk his babies with out a leash.
Even with Alz's setting in..Daddy would not have been lost. He could walk a straight line and
there he would be...
Daddy was buried and he took the ashes of Alfie (our first dog), Zee (my malamute that would talk to him), Maggie (his princess doggie) and Buddy (the cocker that lived his last years as king with daddy).
I know his spirit is at rest, all dogs do go to heaven and the lake was his sanctuary. If I look hard enough, I can see his 1973 Dark Green four door Olds Delta 88 Royal parked and a man proudly wearing his ugly orange AFL CIO union hat with a Ronnie '84 pin stuck in the brim pouring water for the babies.
I am sad...
I listen to the words of this song a hundred times...
This one is for you Daddy.
This Old Man
He worked for thirty years with
Two strong hands, in the factory light his
Lunch box held all his needs with
Coffee sandwiches and dreams
For Me
This Old Man
He taught me many times
To understand, that showing love is simply
Nothing you should have o hide
Don't keep your feelings locked inside
He said
When I was young
I dreamed a young man's dreams
I saw in your eyes
The things I'd never seen
But now I grow old
But I don't really mind
Cause can't you see with my family
We'll share these timeless memories