DAD! Please tell me that John Prine and Kenny Rogers are with you, Crash, Bud (Peanut and Misty, too!) on the back porch RIGHT NOW, watching this gorgeous full moon rise!
I miss you. I am missing you more now than I have at any other time in the last 11 years. Even so, I am thankful that you are not here. These are crazy days, and you never did well with crazy.
You did, however, do well when your family was acting right. We never acted more right than in the days leading up to and immediately following your death. I know your heart breaks, as does mine, when you consider the recent destruction that has laid waste to the final tenuous bonds that held us together. With the benefit of an eternal perspective, I know that you understand where I stand and why.
I made a video for you a year after you died. Sitting with you as you crossed over remains the greatest privilege I’ve experienced so far in life. I look forward to the day we are able to see each other again.
PS…now would be a FANTASTIC time to tell me and Steven where you buried the Krugerrands!