The anniversary that never was

Today, had my father been alive, he and my mother would have been able to celebrate their 50'th wedding anniversary. But that opportunity was cut short well over two years ago.


Still, on the last day of 2010 I want to thank you, daddy, for what you meant to me. Despite your shortcoming and failures, I have come to appreciate that you enriched my life more than subtracting from it. And the hurt and pain - in sum - was overshadowed by your perhaps feeble, but concrete, expressions of love. 


I do hope that I will be seeing you again. There is much fellowship to be enjoyed yet, many a moment of conversation to be spent in surroundings far better than these.