So I hope you'll think respectfully and with dignity about the amazing man who is and will always be my father--this is how I spent the holidays, with him by his bedside. I miss my Daddy so much that it hurts.
I miss you, Daddy.
That's Us. A Little Highbrow. A Little Mundane.
From The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield--there's a great description of a minor character (the doctor's wife) in the book. It goes like this (page 104):
"The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch everything she did and listen to everything she said, and she was too taken up with rooting out the pride she was prone to feeling in her own holiness to notice any other failings she might have had. She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it."
3 comments:
I do see your dad as an amazing man~ When I hear you and your family... The way you express your emotions. I know this man gave...gave you a life to cherish. I am so glad you were able to be with him in this time...
I'm so glad I got to meet your father and feel like I know him a little. I haven't seen the condo in Fall River, so I still picture him at the house in Swansea. I fell in love with the yard and especially the grape arbor. I'd never seen grapes grown that way. I remember him showing us his rental properties. What I'm saying is that my memories of him are from years ago, so I will always remember him as a strong, hard working, gentle man.
Remember that such a hopeless dawn WILL have a joyous morning--from this beautiful article.
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