Perhaps The Sweetest Blessings Are Those Of Which You Are Not Aware

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This old gal…

Had a thought…while eating cheese and crackers…this being…how much better it would taste…with horseradish…which made her think…of that horseradish eating father of hers…and how…old me…really doesn’t know…who that man was…

For some reason…til now…didn’t seemed to be bothered by this fact…but as old age beckons…this has become one of those areas…that needs closure…not many around any more…that could shed light on the whos…the whats…and the whys…that surround the life of this man…been gone 46 years…had no siblings…limited cousins…friends in their 80s…many of them gone…

Reached out to his cousin…ten years younger…brothers married sisters…so he spent lots of time…with that father of mine growing up…we talked on the phone…for an hour…this conversation bringing the little me heart…of this old gal…to tears…

Those words of our cousin…taking the 2D childhood memories of that limited father daughter time…to 3D…HD even…seeing this man…through the eyes of an equal…the eyes of a friend…the eyes of someone this old gal could trust…to tell the truth…

His words…gave comfort…so many attributes described for that father of mine…ring true…also found in his daughter…and his granddaughters…decent attributes…respectable attributes…attributes…to be proud of…attributes explaining…why this old gal…is the way she is…today…

Maybe in his absence…this father of mine…contributed more to this life of mine…than one…would have once thought…
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And this husband of mine…agrees…