My sole purpose in this response is to urge each of you who do have good parents to express to them while they are still here how much you love and appreciate them and how sorry you are for the times you hurt them through your neglect, your self-centeredness, your taking-them-for-grantedness, your lack of appreciation, and all the other thoughtless things we can do to our parents (or other loved ones for that matter.)
As you can guess, both my parents are gone and I never really let them know what they mean to me, or apologized for appreciating them. Like Larry, if I could just have a few minutes with them again to clear that up.
Both my parents were terrific people, but since JD asked about fathers I'll just say that Mom was a terrifc person. Dad was a simple, hard-working country boy with an eight-grade education. All he knew was work and fulfilling his responsibilities. He had a strong "code of the west" moral code: paid every debt, kept every promise, wouldn't consider doing the wrong thing. Loved hunting, but wouldn't consider killing something out of season.
We worked side by side in the dairy, and every summer he and I were in the hay-cutting business. We were close, but neither of us overtly expressed any sentiment. We definitely weren't buddies---he was father and I was son. I see now that everything he did was for the family, and maybe even for me specifically.
We were dirt poor all the time I was coming up. In the end he wound up "dirt rich" when he sold the family lands for a very good price. It's a gift that keeps on giving: I get gas royalties off the land still. I'm glad he got to enjoy money for his final years.
I hurt badly when he died 20 years ago, and again when Mom passed in 2001. Wish I knew how to send them a letter.
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