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Happy Birthday and Some Life Lessons to Boot!
You always passed on the best life lessons. Wish you were here for us to celebrate. Even though you physically aren’t, I’m still celebrating you and I’m still learning life’s lessons. Turns out I have learned a lot in the 11 years you have been gone. I have now lived through 11 years without you in my world, 11 Father’s Day, 11 days where I memorialize and mourn your passing, celebrate 11 of my birthdays, thinking how much I have grown as a woman and then your birthday, just four days later. I have lived through and now learned the agonizing, painful lesson that the last act of true love;…
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My Brave Heart
My father set the bar really high for what this day stands for and I miss everything about him. In the earliest of years, the memories are few but vivid, tickling me, flying me high on his feet, helping me brush my teeth, finding me in the cabinet licking peanut butter off a spoon, tucking me in at night. Then as time went on, it was my excitement to get off the plane knowing he would be on the other side of those doors waiting for me, the cool rush of the air conditioned airport as I stepped out into the waiting area, my eyes adjusting to the bright light…
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How Sunrises Renewed My Life
For as long as I have lived on the east coast of Florida, I have had a love affair with sunrises. For years, I was all about the sunset. Yet, people change and so did I. I can remember being a teenager living on the west coast and my father always being an early riser. I dreading him waking me on Saturday mornings to run errands. It would be the crack of dawn…and I usually felt imposed upon for whatever reason any teen aged person feels imposed upon…but every time I dragged myself from the bed, I had such a feeling of enlightenment and accomplishment by the time we completed…
