Father

Like father,

like son.

Whether

it is

genetics

or the

environment,

the apple usually

does not fall far from the tree.


Just as every person has a different concept of what their

Higher Power is, so does every person have a different

idea of what a father is or what a father should be.

Any man can be a father,

it takes someone special to be a dad.

"By the time a man realizes
that maybe his father was right,
he usually has a son
who thinks he's wrong."           ~ Charles Wadworth

Right or wrong, physically present or absent,

emotionally present or absent, just about everyone has

a father figure that they can remember.

Some may have more than one.

Most well balanced people grow with the ability

to learn from the many fathers, coaches, mentors,

teachers, preachers, rabbis, priests, shamans,

or maybe just the man next door, those who

were a part of your learning about life's purpose or meaning.

Best friends growing up were proud to share

with you the good virtues of their fathers.

Everyone loved the mother who could bake:

OOps, different subject for a different time.

The most important lessons in life are those lessons

that teach one about emotions, about feelings, what they feel like,

how to express them to others, what is appropriate or inappropriate

when it comes to showing your feelings.

Love, but do not hate.

Like the good, but dislike the bad.

Be kind, and humbly accept kindness.

Have the courage to do the next right thing.

Have the honesty to say I do not know, let us learn together.

Show sincerity in all that you do.

Have the willingness to change.

Be the person your children think you are.

"Son, brother, father, lover, friend.
There is room in the heart for all the affections,
as there is room in heaven for all the stars."           ~ Victor Hugo

Today, do the will of your Higher Power.

Happiness is helping someone help themselves.
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ME and the Boss

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In loving memory of
Guy Robert Erb,
deceased.
Born August 13th, 1916.

Photo credit: Gail Ackerman