Father’s Day
A weekend is upon us. For some, time off. For some, time to work. For many, a time to remember. For a few, a time to forget.
A weekend of hustle and bustle. Padres games. U.S. Open golf. NASCAR race. Yard work and picnics and phone calls.
Will you take time to think of days gone by? Your heritage? Your background? Your family? Your dad?
Father’s Day has many meanings to many men.
I wonder what it was like for him to grow up in the Depression. Bread lines, riots, despair.
I wonder what it was like to lose his father at the age of 15. Become the man of the house as a mid-teen.
I wonder what it was like to be a minor league pitcher in the 1930s, him wanting to be a St. Louis Cardinal, the disappointment of never getting to the show. (more…)
