If the most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother, then Dad gave you all the most important thing. Never was anyone as truly loved as I was. Remember when Dad and I went to the Marriage Encounter? The one great realization that I took from that exchange was the awareness that I was totally loved. Whatever I was and whatever I did and whatever I said, I had a rock supporting me. I could be who I truly was, mad or sad or glad.

It is from that reservoir of his love that I draw the strength to go on living this life without him as fully as I can.

Today he would be 70. I know he is singing somewhere.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
-Theodore M. Hesburgh

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love the most is soap-on-a-rope. - Bill Cosby

Happy Birthday Dad! XO
Love,
Pat, Ellen, David, Bob, Marian, Joe, Margot, Jay, Erin, Alex, Jim, Jane, Eileen, Anna, Patrick, Grace, Maggie, Kate, Bobby, Irene, Lauren, PJ, Jack, Max, Helen, Julia, Aidan...etc...etc...