For those of you with parents who have passed away:
When you think of them, what are they doing?
With my dad, it’s one of two things:
1) Frying a small steak in the kitchen.
2) Rather mechanically serving as a line judge at my youth soccer games.
Always one of those two. Never anything else.
When you think of them, what are they doing?
With my dad, it’s one of two things:
1) Frying a small steak in the kitchen.
2) Rather mechanically serving as a line judge at my youth soccer games.
Always one of those two. Never anything else.
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1. Him doing an impressive hands-on-table interpretation of the drum solo in “Wipeout”
2. Waxing his lawnmower and his family constantly making fun of him for it
Mom is just... there. The feeling of proximity is much more intense than any mental image. I guess I just really want her to hold me again.
leading an AA meeting
doing her elaborate home pedicure and listening to melissa etheridge
playing tetris on my 8-bit nintendo and singing my name down the hall
Twatting someone with a massive sword whilst dressed as a Norman knight.
Mum. Rolling a ciggie with one hand doing a puzzle.
1. Playing his guitar
2. Tinkering with his van to make it run better (he was a master mechanic)
We had a bird feeder we could see from the kitchen window and the Peterson Guide on the table.
1. Editing a typewritten manuscript with a blue pencil.
2. Being the life of the party with his best friend Ed, singing songs they’ve been harmonizing together since high school.
3. Chatting with a cashier.
4. Fixing some broken household thing with a clever little rig of odds and ends.
Which I happen to be making right now.
Thanks, Dad.
Dad: watching a comedy on TV he's seen 20 times before and still laughing at every joke
"Juicy Fruit, my favorite! Split it with me?"
Delight shared is delight perfected.
2) In the audience at every show I did, laughing and beaming.
or
Doing some of the most athletic stuff that I could never dream of. I once made fun of him for getting old and he jumped up to the nearest rafter and did 6 one armed pullups