Happy Birthday Dad!

Tuesday August 24, 2010



HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DAD! Today is my dad's birthday. Come this September, he will be gone 11 years. It is astonishing to me still how it seems like yesterday. I know many of us out there have had loss recently & in the past as well. I have nothing for this post but to celebrate the honest, fun loving, hilarious, smart, wise cracking, loving best dad ever!!!! This is a repost on my last year post on his bday for those that have been following me that long.


From The Little Prince.... We shortened the below quote to put on a bench by his grave but here is the whole thing:

You—you alone—will have the stars as no one else has them--…in one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night…you---only you—will have stars that can laugh…”

Here are a couple other translations that are just as good:

"When you look up at the sky at night, since I'll be living on one of them, since I'll be laughing on one of them, for you, it'll be as if all the stars are laughing. You'll have stars that can laugh!"

"And when you're consoled (everyone is eventually consoled), you'll be glad you've known me. You'll always be my friend. You'll feel like laughing with me. And you'll open your windows sometimes just for the fun of it... And your friends will be amazed to see you laughing while you're looking up at the sky. Then you'll tell them, 'Yes, it's the stars. They always make me laugh!"

I also love this quote:


Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Another thing about my dad. He was the first "all for equality & open minded person" I knew. He hired women and blacks and black women and any other race when it was a rare thing. It was all about "who can do the job" and not what color or race or religion you were...
 
He also would always say this: I speak to "Her" every Wednesday and she told me .... and then on to whatever it was he wanted to say at that moment. The point being, he certainly was not a male chauvinist!!! For those that don't get this, he was referring to his idea of God as "Her". We put that saying on his grave marker.
 
A life lost too early! I love you dad!

Thx to all who continue to read my blog! AND for allowing me these times when I just have to put my fitness and health posts aside.

THE DASH - Always good to watch again but if you have not seen it, a must see!

PS: That is a pic of my Dad a few years before he passed away. I know some of you may have noticed his weight which was a battle on & off thru his life. Food was a big part of my growing up. Not only in eating at home BUT the family & holiday gatherings! My Dad was not that heavy when he passed away & had been keeping his weight at a decent number for a few years by then. We do not think his death was related to weight. It is a complicated story & not willing to go into it but suffice to say that we all think there were some probs with doctor care. There are lots of wonderful docs out there, Dr. J being one of them, but as in every profession, there are probs. We did no autopsy. It would have been to hard after watching him in a coma for 2 weeks & having to make the very difficult decision to let him go as he was "brain dead" as they call it. We did do multiple tests on that.

Posted by truth2beingfit at 8/23/2010 9:00 PM
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