Today would have been Dad's 70th birthday. I don't know which is harder to get my head around, that Dad isn't with us anymore or that he could have been 70. Here I am approaching 50 and my Dad still seemed to be in his 50s to me.
Oh, I so know what you mean about the double impossibility of believing he is both gone, and the age he would have been...My Daddy died 30 years ago now, - I have mad thoughts about the fact that he "is" (would be) in his 90s now which somehow coexist with the vision of him as the astonishingly youthful sixty something that he actually was... That doesn't actually make sense as a sentence, does it? But I guess what I'm really doing is sending empathetic hugs on a difficult day for you ((Erin))
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Oh, I so know what you mean about the double impossibility of believing he is both gone, and the age he would have been...My Daddy died 30 years ago now, - I have mad thoughts about the fact that he "is" (would be) in his 90s now which somehow coexist with the vision of him as the astonishingly youthful sixty something that he actually was...
That doesn't actually make sense as a sentence, does it? But I guess what I'm really doing is sending empathetic hugs on a difficult day for you ((Erin))
Thanks Kathryn, you lost your dad young. My sympathies for that. Although he died 'young' I'm grateful I had my dad as long as I did.
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