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...
posted by JGbytheSea at 12:47 PM
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Dad would have been 70 today. Here are some things I remember:
Challenging him to a foot race in the side yard of 4 Center Drive. He let me win (he was much younger than I am now, but after running around a baseball diamond with Patrick last weekend, I'm wondering whether he let me win or not).
Frequent compliments from him.
Rushing to meet him in his NY office right after my interview with Slade & Pellman where they made me an offer on the spot. He and I always talked about management issues, and I always called to tell him when I got a raise or had another kind of success.
Discussing politics. He was so mad that the Democrats couldn't seem to make the point that if you put all the children living in poverty together they would make up the population of three states. Work for welfare sounds good, he said, but what do you do about those that can't work, that can't take care of themselves? Leave them on the side of the road?
Him meeting me at the door of 39 Dartmouth when I came home after Pop-pop died. Turning to him at Grandma's funeral.
Dad choking up at my wedding (all of our weddings)!
Many, many, many more.
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