Can We Talk 2

Father's Day Cookout

         It might be raining, so we will be confined indoors. However, My niece and her fiance will find a way to grill whatever is on their menu. Knowing her kids, they will play in the rain.

         I've thought about this. There will be two fathers there, the fiance and my brother. Only 3 kids with fathers will be there (two belong to the fiance and one is my nephew).All the adults have lost fathers and grandfathers. Three children have lost a father; the seven year old was halfway between heaven and earth when his father died at age 36 of a heart attack. He never got to meet his father. Those children have lost both their grandfathers and a great grandfather, my dad, in their lifetimes. So it's kind of a celebration and kind of a memorial. Or in our case, just an excuse to get together in the country and eat.

         They were all great fathers. Patient and giving, they were strong men who put family first. I'm sorry the little ones couldn't know that for themselves. The rest of us will remember and honor our fathers. (Mine was a daddy because I'm a Southerner.)