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My Teen Kid's Feelings about Her Boomer Plus Dad

 

 

Old as She Was, She Still Missed Her Daddy Sometimes*

 

By My Kid For her Daddy, June 21, 2009

 

I could get so old that walking you could hear the floor creak. That going to the bathroom is so hard some one needs to walk me to the bathroom. Opening my eyes and closing them is as hard as learning to walk for the second time. I will always miss my father.

I could be looking at my great grand kids and wondering why my father isn't here helping me raising them. I'd remember the great times of swimming in Virginia, and the poker and sorry games. I will be looking at the old games and saying “Wow, the time has passed.” And I will always miss you.

We could be sitting on the beach when I'm 34 and you’re 87 and realize that time may be running short. But even 100 years from now, I will miss you 'cause you’re my dad...

and I will miss you even then.

 

* Quote by Gloria Naylor

 

Love(ing) Forward and Positive Aging

Shakspeare on Love and Longevity

William Shakespeare wrote often about love, aging and death.

And in this annual National Poetry Month, I want to think about what he has to tell us about love and long life.

Below is Sonnet 116 which begins, Let me not to the marriage of true minds (a)Admit impediments.  You read on to the end.

SONNET 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments.

Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
 Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
 If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

Editor Eric found some humor in the sonnets.      (more...)