Father's Day 2008

It is Father’s Day. I am in the Detroit airport. I extended a business trip to visit family in Findlay. It was a good trip.

I write this blog as my journal. I would like to have a journal from my father and mother, from their parents and from their parent’s parents and so on. I call it A Portrait because in words that is what I expect. It will never be the sum of me, nothing is, but when my progeny reads it now, as km17 does, or in years to come when dg4 and wg2 do, I hope it will give them some insight into who I am or what mattered enough to me to write it down. It is a great gift to be a Father. I don’t need to be celebrated for being a Father, I want to celebrate because I am one.
June 15, 2008