Category: Dad
Wings to fly
This picture was taken on a pier somewhere in Florida, by a kind stranger, old enough to know we could out run him if he chose to take my camera with him. I look happy here, go figure. I think it was because my youngest still loved to snuggle & looked at me as though…
Take science out of schools??!?!?
Do people understand that all the medicines they take & cancer treatments they receive, & dialysis machines…everything to help us & our families to feel better, was created by scientist?
The scary eye exam
Henry says, I look like a bug.
I said,”Quick, we need Raid bug spray”
Blue as a pup.
We had my family here last night & my sister in law is a bit scared of Blue, but Blue loves her. So I get on my knees & hug him. She said, “don’t let him bite you” I said,” he would never bight me” So he got sick of me hanging around his neck & shook me off & I landed on my right side on the floor, trying to figure out how he did that. I guess because he is 100 pound of white fur & everyone one thinks he is part polar bear.
Different story, but from last night. My father was headed up the stairs, I said, “look out Dad, Huskies coming” And he got off the stairs because 160 pounds of furry love had to be peed before we left to see the fireworks. I opened the wooden door, but there is a screen & metal door after. I said,’Blue open the door.” He did, he always does. Greatly impressing my father.
I am sure he was impressed that I leashed these two beasties that outweigh me & walk out the dark night with them. But the are made up of nothing but love.
The best parents, mine.
They came to watch H. play t-ball. My father told me my whole life while I was growing tall, he would say, “Our parents make us, then we remake themselves” I guess I forgot the photo part. 4 generations of photographers & now S. picking up the torch or camera rather. My father’s favorite cameras were the Hasselblad & the Contax SLR because of its lenses/optics. I guess being an eye guy, I would believe him, but can’t afford either one of his favorites. So I use the standard Nikon D90.
There are plastic signs, metal signs, tin signs…
There are wooden signs stained & stickers placed upon the wood.
Then there is a love of a craft & what they do. Up in Stowe, Vermont, is a small old victorian house that makes signs with love of design, of history.
I couldn’t afford one, but they are worth the expense to new business owner, because they look like they are dedicated in doing what they love.
This sign is my fathers, It has hung in three or four different locations in Montpelier & he had carried it with him to Alabama. He said he didn’t know what to do with it now, because he works part-time for another. Just to keep his toes in.
My father is one of those doctors that look at you like a person in need of his help. Most doctors, these days, look at you as their next car payment. Because I was raised by a man who gave his all to his patients. I interview my doctors outright. Doctors are just people & if you don’t like them, try another. I ask them do you see me as a person or as money. If I believe they are ordering unnecessary tests or scheduling unnecessary appointments. I tell them what I think they are doing & if they stop I will stay with them. I paid a portion of their car or their vacation, but if that is all I am with no improvement to my health. Not only are they rotten doctors, they are rotten people.
Compassion, I will pay you for some of that, I will return, if you listen to me & not have scheduled the money, I mean patients, in the waiting room 5 minutes per patient, i will remain. Gosh, doctors are a dime a dozen these days.
I have a pain doctor who told me the truth about what has happened to me, that he might help or he might make me worse. I told him outright your hired. He laughed. Doctors work for me. I will listen & do as you say, as long as I know everything you call for is indeed needed & necessary. My pain doc’s bottom line is to keep his practice lucrative, but he knows that the only proper way to do that, is to help heal his patients.
I am better then I’ve been in 6 years. I don’t mind paying his car payments, if he is healing me. My father healed people whether they had money or not. He has been paid in art, food, & mostly love. Small town doc who cares about his patients becomes a celebrity. Everywhere he went, on the coldest days of winter, he was always given the warmest hellos, spoken from their hearts of the people he helped see.
This sign sits on his unfinished bathroom. To me it is a treasure, just like the name of the man the sign bares.
I loved this sign & bought my Father-in-law one very similar
My father in law calls his 44 acre stocked lake a pond. I define a pond as a small dirty body of water that are usually dug for horses. I forgot that he called it “the Pond”. So when he opened it ( he’s said, The Lake is my happy place”) I got so worried that he thought I was pushing the definition of his pond. His sister pulled a 18# big mouth Bass out of his pond a couple of weeks ago.
Looking through the window
The view is the same, the weather can change it. time will change a view, storm, rainbow. When I looked that this view. I know that man was made for me. Sweet
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