For What It's Worth II

Many years back when the kids were little, our black lab, Holly, ran off and was lost for a few days. We put a "Lost Dog" sign on Collister Road after a couple days. The phone rang one evening and one of the kids answered it. A lady had called and had seen our sign, and, she had also seen a sign in the neighborhood from someone who had found a black lab. The lady on the phone explained seeing the 2 signs and wondered if the found dog could be our dog. To which my child said, "It can't be our dog, our dog's lost".  I took the phone and called the other number and went and got our dog.

 

Quote for the day:

"Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could... adopted a role called 'Being a Father' so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life." -Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities

This is very true as I watched my mother die and as I watch my father age. I once heard it explained that the human spirit doesn't age. It changes due to experiences, but you feel young at heart as your body ages