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Father's Day Then and Now
Jun. 17th, 2018 12:05 amThis is such a typical picture of Rob: He's sitting at our dining room table reading something, with a daughter on his lap.
Specifically, it's Father's Day ten years ago: June 15, 2008. So it's a Father's Day card he's reading, and he's proudly wearing a shirt that the girls colored for him with fabric markers. The shirt reads "Dads Make the World Go Round."
Of course, he kept the shirt. He wore it often. Of course, I still have it, frayed around the collar.
Today is Father's Day, ten years later.
I think of the shirts you see sometimes for sale at resorts: "My Dad [or my parents] went to ______ and all I got was this lousy t-shirt."
My children's father is gone. Not to Vegas, not to Harry Potter's World at Universal Studios, not to New York City.
He's just gone.
And all I have (apologies to the girls, who so lovingly colored it) is this lousy t-shirt.
Specifically, it's Father's Day ten years ago: June 15, 2008. So it's a Father's Day card he's reading, and he's proudly wearing a shirt that the girls colored for him with fabric markers. The shirt reads "Dads Make the World Go Round."
Of course, he kept the shirt. He wore it often. Of course, I still have it, frayed around the collar.
Today is Father's Day, ten years later.
I think of the shirts you see sometimes for sale at resorts: "My Dad [or my parents] went to ______ and all I got was this lousy t-shirt."
My children's father is gone. Not to Vegas, not to Harry Potter's World at Universal Studios, not to New York City.
He's just gone.
And all I have (apologies to the girls, who so lovingly colored it) is this lousy t-shirt.
