Reflective Kiwi %-)
Remembering Dad on his 90th Birthday!
Friday May 25th 2012
If my Dad was still alive... we would be celebrating his 90th Birthday today!
It's actually hard to believe or even to try and imagine him at 90...
Sadly Dad passed away 23 years ago this December...
I've just realised too... that I was 23 at the time...
So I've spent half my life with him... and half my life without him...
But truth be know... he is still very much with me and always will be! %-)
Dad was 67 when he died...
This year would have been my parents 67th Wedding Anniversary...
I though that was kind of an interesting coincidence too...
The photo on the left is taken in Quesnel BC Canada at the age of @ 8 or 9...
The photo on the right I took the Christmas before he died...
Dad had a beautiful smile, and that's one of the things I love about both of these photos!
I always make a special point of visiting Dad on his Birthday...
I like to think he's looking down and knows I'm thinking of him...
It give me a nice sense of peace and connection...
I wanted to share this beautiful song by Mike and the Mechanics with you...
It was actually written and released the year that Dad died...
It struck a real chord with me when I first heard it...
I had a bittersweet reaction to it...
It would always make me cry but I loved it so much too.
"I wasn't there that morning
When my father passed away
I didn't get to tell him
All the things I had to say
I think I caught his spirit
Later that same year
I'm sure I heard his echo
In my baby's new born tears
I just wish I could have told him
In the living years
Say it loud
Say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye..."
For all the pain and heartache Dad's illness brought us in in last couple of months...
I was very fortunate to have had the time and opportunity to get to say the things I wanted to say...
To share thoughts and memories of the past and talk about the future that we wouldn't get to share.
It made me appreciate what I had, what I have and to make sure I will always take the time..
To let my family and friends and those I hold dear, know what they mean to me! %-)
This song is a great reminder to all that too...
So I do hope you will take the time to listen! %-)
Remembering Dad on his 90th Birthday!
Friday May 25th 2012
If my Dad was still alive... we would be celebrating his 90th Birthday today!
It's actually hard to believe or even to try and imagine him at 90...
Sadly Dad passed away 23 years ago this December...
I've just realised too... that I was 23 at the time...
So I've spent half my life with him... and half my life without him...
But truth be know... he is still very much with me and always will be! %-)
Dad was 67 when he died...
This year would have been my parents 67th Wedding Anniversary...
I though that was kind of an interesting coincidence too...
The photo on the left is taken in Quesnel BC Canada at the age of @ 8 or 9...
The photo on the right I took the Christmas before he died...
Dad had a beautiful smile, and that's one of the things I love about both of these photos!
I always make a special point of visiting Dad on his Birthday...
I like to think he's looking down and knows I'm thinking of him...
It give me a nice sense of peace and connection...
I wanted to share this beautiful song by Mike and the Mechanics with you...
It was actually written and released the year that Dad died...
It struck a real chord with me when I first heard it...
I had a bittersweet reaction to it...
It would always make me cry but I loved it so much too.
"I wasn't there that morning
When my father passed away
I didn't get to tell him
All the things I had to say
I think I caught his spirit
Later that same year
I'm sure I heard his echo
In my baby's new born tears
I just wish I could have told him
In the living years
Say it loud
Say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye..."
For all the pain and heartache Dad's illness brought us in in last couple of months...
I was very fortunate to have had the time and opportunity to get to say the things I wanted to say...
To share thoughts and memories of the past and talk about the future that we wouldn't get to share.
It made me appreciate what I had, what I have and to make sure I will always take the time..
To let my family and friends and those I hold dear, know what they mean to me! %-)
This song is a great reminder to all that too...
So I do hope you will take the time to listen! %-)